Michael Gallagher on Everhard Jabach and His Family


This painting took months of cleaning and structural work to revive—and posed several conservation challenges.

“What does it take to revive a masterwork?” Michael Gallagher on conserving Charles Le Brun’s Everhard Jabach and His Family. Charles Le Brun, Everhard Jabach and His Family, c. 1660, oil on canvas, 280 x 328 cm (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)

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