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In 1910, Cracow art historian Professor Jerzy Mycielski bought Portrait of a young man, believing it to be a work by Dutch painter Jan Lievens, at an auction in Amsterdam. After Mycielski’s death in 1929, following his last will, the portrait along with his entire collection was bequeathed to the Wawel Royal Castle. In an article published in 1917 Hans Schneider saw the likeness of the painting to...
In order to determine in detail the structure of the painting, physical and chemical analyses were carried out, such as: UV light examination, IR light examination, X-ray, chemical analysis of the ground layer and pigments (of the original paint layer as well as the overpaint layers). The stratigraphy of the existing layers was determined based on the examination of the cross-sections. Pigments were...
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