Eight layers of varnish had drowned iconic painting’s colours over time, as coating became yellow with oxidation
’s Liberty Leading the People will rise above the fray of revolutionary anarchy in her true colours once more.
‘We’re the first generation to rediscover the colour,’ says Sébastien Allard, the Louvre’s director of paintings.The painting has been re-interpreted by countless modern artists, and versions of the image have appeared on banknotes, album sleeves, book covers and political placards at protests around the world.
The painting, pictured here before restoration, had lost its original colours due to excessive varnishing, according to restorers.The colours, “the whites, the shadows – all of this ended up melting together under these yellowish layers”, Sébastien Allard, director of paintings at the Paris museum, told Agence France-Presse. “We’re the first generation to rediscover the colour,” he added.
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