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Jean-Baptiste Oudry: Exotic Animals in Eighteenth-Century Europe

Project Images






Staatliches Museum
Lion, during conservation
Unrolling Lion






Conservators in the paintings conservation studio
Bridge constructed to span the reverse of Lion
Old patch






Reweaving of the original canvas
Mended areas
Surgical sutures are passed through the canvas






Detail of a sutured area
Preparing to unroll
Rhinoceros during unrolling






Jutta Michels
Bridge constructed to allow access to the center of Rhinoceros
Preparing the edges of the reverse






Rhinoceros before conservation
Rhinoceros during conservation
Rhinoceros after conservation