X-radiograph(s) of "Vision of a Saint"

Identification and Creation

Object Number: Straus.4704
People: Artist of original: (?) Giovanni Battista Crespi, Italian (1575 - 1663)
Title: X-radiograph(s) of "Vision of a Saint"
Classification: Photographs
Work Type: photograph, x-radiograph
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/344197

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, Alan Burroughs Collection of X-Radiographs
Object Number: Straus.4704
Contact: am_straus@harvard.edu
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Description: X-Radiograph Description: Number : 6 prints and 2 negatives of X-ray; Negatives : Detail of left-hand side; Detail of right-hand side; Prints : #1, 2, 3 missing; #4 : Print of a photo after cleaning (overpaint removed); #5 : Print of a photo of right-hand side after cleaning (overpaint removed); #6 : Print of X-ray, detail of saint; #7 : print of X-ray, detail of Christ; #8 : Print of a infra-red film when the right-hand part of the picture was cleaned; #9 : Print of a photo : detail of left-hand side of the picture partly cleaned and right-hand side wholly cleaned

X-Radiograph Settings: 25 kv, 5 ma, 30 sec.

Burroughs Number: 486

X-Radiograph(s) of:
Artist: Crespi, Giovanni Battista (?) (called Cerano), Italian, ca. 1575-1632
Title: Vision of a Saint
Description: Canvas
Owner: Harvard University Art Museums
Object Number: 1922.14