RESTORATION OF ANTIQUE PAINTINGS
Fine art restoration studio "L'Accro des Toiles" - Christelle Chazeau and Alain Montoir

Copies and reproductions of paintings

Technique in the copying of an old painting

Old work – original portrait of a man from "the Restoration period" after an anonymous painter.

The reproduction of the painting
Oil on canvas 42 x 54 cm


Detail of the copy (on the right) of the epaulette with impasto of the paint
"… This copy was made using the old techniques of sizing and coating with rabbit skin glue and whiting … . which gives an aged aspect to the canvas after the paint is completely dry. We can even go as far as cracking the coating, and so give it the air of a very old painting…"	Detail of the portrait's eye showing the paste and the copyist's stroke.