Cleaning Up

This week Thomas Gainsborough's famous painting, "The Blue Boy," was taken from its place in the Huntington museum for a little conservation work. Maybe that isn't too exciting, but for someone like me who enjoys the secret work that goes on behind a successful art museum, this photo set of the conservation is pretty cool. Conservators from The Getty (one of my favourite museums), were sent to work on the painting, their job included taking microscopic paint samples for analysis, & giving the work a new coat of varnish.