Visible Light images

There are fourteen images taken in visible light including the black and white print from the Cook Collection made after its acquisition in 1900. Robert Simon photographed the painting in 2005 with a small digital camera. Eight Ektachrome transparencies were shot by professional photographers, including 4 details, between 2006 and 2010, and four digital images were made between 2010 and 2017. 

Partly due to the different equipment and photographic processes used, these images vary greatly even when they represent the same state. It is exceptionally difficult to render the colors in an accurate and consistent manner. The shallow depth of field doesn’t accommodate the three dimensional aspect of the corrugated surface of the panel but the primary difficulty is due to the different color temperatures of the photographic halogen lamps and strobes and their excessively high light levels and which penetrate too deeply into the thin applications of preparation and paint. The resulting images are so mutable that even when the colors are balanced for consistency, they change depending on the monitor used to view them.

Before Restoration, 2005

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Photograph by Robert Simon
Courtesy of Salvator Mundi LLC

Cleaned State, 2006
Drum scan of an 8 x 10 transparency made with Kodak EPY 64 Tungsten film, Dearforff camera with a polarizing filter,  camera, 2 Lowel Tota lights with 750-Watt tungsten bulbs with polarizing gels.

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Photograph by Joshua Nefsky, Courtesy Salvator Mundi LLC

Details, 2008Drum scans of 4x5 transparencies made with Kodak EPY 64 Tungsten film, a Horseman 4x5 camera, 2 Lowel Tota lights with 750-Watt tungsten bulbs with polarizing gels.

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Photographs by Joshua Nefsky, courtesy of Salvator Mundi, LLC

Mid Restoration, June 2008 Drum scan of an 8 x 10 transparency made with Kodak EPY 64 Tungsten film, a Deardorff camera with a polarizing filter, 2 Lowel Tota lights with 750-Watt tungsten bulbs with polarizing gels.

Photograph by Joshua Nefsky, courtesy of Salvator Mundi, LLC

Mid restoration, 2010

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Drum scan of an Ektachrome by Joshua Nefsky, copyright Salvator Mundi LLC

Finished restoration, June 2010Drum scan of an 8x10 Ektachrome transparency

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Unknown photographer, Courtesy of Salvator Mundi, LL

September 2010, Second Shoot Tim Nighswander, Imaging4art, courtesy of Salvator Mundi, LLC

Finished restoration, September 2010

Camera:
Hasselblad H2D with a CF-39 MS back (39 million pixel -multi shot) used in the 4 shot modeLens:
Hasselblad 80mm with polarizing filter. Settings:
1/60 second, f:8, ISO 50 Lighting:
electronic strobes with polarizing filters Format:
captured in the Hasselblad proprietary RAW (fff) software and exported as 16-bit TIFF Post processing:
Adjustments made in Photoshop. Files printed on an Epson 3880 printer and compared to the original under daylight viewing lights. Further adjustments made to achieve a visual match to the original. Final image size:
6276x7923 pixels. 20.92x26.41 inches @300 dpi

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Tim Nighswander, Imaging4Art, Courtesy of Salvator Mundi, LLC

September 2017Photograph by Shan Kuang, conservation Center, Instiute of fine Arts, NYU

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Nikon D-710, halogen photo lamps

September 2017Digital image with strobe lights

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Courtesy of Christie's