Minisode 2: Discovered – An Unknown Self-Portrait of Van Gogh

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Sources:

X-Rays in Art Conservation:

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Images:

X-Ray revealing self-portrait of Van Gogh [image credit: National Galleries of Scotland]
Vincent Van Gogh, Head of a Peasant Woman [Gordina de Groot?], 1885, oil on canvas mounted on cardboard [image credit: National Galleries of Scotland]
Conservator Lesley Stevenson with Van Gogh’s Head of a Peasant Woman [image credit: National Galleries of Scotland]
Cardboard backing on Head of a Peasant Woman [image credit: National Galleries of Scotland via NYPost]
Vincent Van Gogh, The Potato Eaters, 1885, oil on canvas – note: Gordina de Groot is believed to have sat for Van Gogh when he was painting this work, her likeness if the second from the left [image credit: Van Gogh Museum Amsterdam]

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-Lindsay

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