How To Care For Your Paintings

Vincent Van Gogh

Portrait of Dr. Paul Gachet

• Things to Consider: The best place to hang a painting is on a wall which has a wall stud where you can securely anchor the wall hooks, away from any heat source, in a place of relatively stable and reasonable humidity and not in direct sunlight.

• Dirt and Heat: Heat dries out the material of the painting, speeding up the process of natural aging.   Also, as hot air rises it carries dirt with it.  Thus, a painting above a heat source will experience far more grime than is normal for the rest of the room. 

• Water: Moisture will weaken the adhesion of the paint layers and eventually cause paint loss.   The support and ground are the most sensitive components of the painting to water damage.  If damage to the support and ground are pervasive, further damage to the paint and varnish may occur.

• Humidity: Low or high relative humidity as well as rapid changes in relative humidity are not good for paintings. 

• Light: Fugitive dyes and colorants used in the paints will eventually discolor under exposure to ultraviolet light.  The fading of pigments and dyes in paintings will affect the color balance of the image.  The intensity and wavelengths of light used in displaying graphic art is generally safe for paintings.

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Sir Peter Paul Rubens

'Helena Fourment in Wedding Dress"

 

Sir Peter Paul Rubens Flemish Baroque painter, style temphasized movement, color, and sensuality, Rubens is well known for his Counter-Reformation altarpieces, portraits, landscapes, and history paintings of mythological and allegorical subjects. Rubens produced paintings popular with nobility and art collectors throughout Europe.

Sir Peter Paul Rubens

Rubens with Hélène Fourment and their son Peter Paul

 

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Johannes Vermeer The Girl with the Wine Glass (c. 1659)

 

Vermeer painted mostly domestic interior scenes. Almost all his paintings are apparently set in two smallish rooms in his house in Delft; they show the same furniture and decorations in various arrangements and they often portray the same people, mostly women
 

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Johannes, Jan or Johan Vermeer "The Astronomer" (detail)

 

Vermeer was a Dutch painter who specialized in domestic interior scenes of middle-class life. Vermeer was a moderately successful provincial genre painter in his lifetime. Vermeer worked slowly and with great care, and frequently used very expensive pigments.

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Rubens and Isabella Brant, The Honeysuckle Bower, (detail) c.1609

 

Sir Peter Paul Rubens  Flemish Baroque painter. A proponent of an extravagant Baroque style that emphasized movement, color, and sensuality, Rubens is well known for his Counter-Reformation altarpieces, portraits, landscapes, and history paintings of mythological and allegorical subjects.

 

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Allegory with Venus and Cupid, Mid-1540s
 

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Water Lilies by Oscar-Claude Monet (1840-1926)

Water Lilies by Oscar-Claude Monet (1840-1926)

 

Famous French painter and one of the founders of the

 Impressionism movement. Monet rejected the traditional approach

 to landscape painting and instead of copying old masters he had been

 learning from his friends and the nature itself. Monet observed

 variations of color and light caused by the daily or seasonal changes.

 

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The Swing, Oil Painting  (31 7/8"x25 1/4"

 

 Also known as The Happy Accidents of the Swing

an 18th-century oil painting by Jean-Honoré Fragonard

It is considered one of the masterpieces of the rococo era,

and is Fragonard's best known work.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, La Loge - Oil on Canvas

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Record price paid for When Will You Marry? by Paul Gauguin, sold for $300 million in 2015.

 When Will You Marry?

by Paul Gauguin, sold for $300 million in 2015.

 

The sale was also significant in that for the first time a "modern" painting (in this case from 1888) became the record holder, as opposed to the old master paintings which had always previously held it. Since that time sales of the most valuable paintings have usually been made at auctions though that had by no means always been the case before, and the list below still shows some "private sales

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Did you know that PaintingsToGo.com works on commissions for artists?

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Johannes Vermeer - Dutch Painter of the Dutch Golden Age

The Artist Studio (Detail)

Girl with a Pearl Earring

Woman with a Water Jug

 

Mistress and Maid

 

Johannes, Jan or Johan Vermeer was a Dutch painter who specialized in domestic interior scenes of middle-class life. Vermeer was a moderately successful provincial genre painter in his lifetime. He seems never to have been particularly wealthy, leaving his wife and children in debt at his death, perhaps because he produced relatively few paintings.

Vermeer worked slowly and with great care, using bright colors and sometimes expensive pigments; with a preference for lapis lazuli and Indian yellow. He is particularly renowned for his masterly treatment and use of light in his work.

Recognized during his lifetime in Delft and The Hague, his modest celebrity gave way to obscurity after his death; he was barely mentioned in Arnold Houbraken's major source book on 17th-century Dutch painting (Grand Theatre of Dutch Painters and Women Artists), and was thus omitted from subsequent surveys of Dutch art for nearly two centuries. In the 19th century, Vermeer was rediscovered by Gustav Friedrich Waagen and Théophile Thoré-Bürger, who published an essay attributing 66 pictures to him, although only 34 paintings are universally attributed to him today.Since that time, Vermeer's reputation has grown, and he is now acknowledged as one of the greatest painters of the Dutch Golden Age.