"The Changing Image: Studies in Paintings Conservation"
Lucy Belloli
Charlotte Gere
Charlotte Hale
Charlotte Hale joined the Department of Paintings Conservation at The Met in 1987. She specializes in the examination and treatment of nineteenth century European paintings. Among recent conservation treatments are pictures by Delacroix, Degas, Renoir, Seurat, and Van Gogh. She has worked closely with curatorial colleagues on exhibitions including Van Gogh: Irises and Roses (2015), and Seurat's Circus Sideshow (2017), and Van Gogh’s Cypresses (2023). Charlotte received her training in the conservation of paintings at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London.
Selected publications
———. "A Template for Experimentation: Cézanne's Process and the Paintings of Hortense Fiquet." In Madame Cézanne, by Dita Amory, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Distributed by Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2014, 45-71.
——— and Silvia A. Centeno. "Seurat’s Circus Sideshow; Materials, Technique, Evolution." In Seurat’s Circus Sideshow, by Richard Thomson, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Distributed by Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2014, 112-116.
——— and Silvia A. Centeno. “Untangling Nature; Van Gogh’s Materials and Process.” In Van Gogh’s Cypresses, by Susan Alyson Stein. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Distributed by Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2023, pp. 92-109
Dorothy Mahon
Dorothy Mahon received her MA in the history of art and a certificate of advanced study in conservation from the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University. She was appointed to the staff in 1981 and has conserved paintings spanning the collection, with emphasis on the technical examination and treatment of European paintings of the 15th to 19th centuries and American paintings, including works by Veronese, Caravaggio, Rembrandt, Goya, Delacroix, Homer, and Sargent. She has participated in the supervision and training of many graduate interns and fellows, and has served as a member of the editorial board of the Metropolitan Museum Journal.
Selected publications
Mahon, Dorothy; Silvia A. Centeno, Margaret Iocono, Federico Carò, Andrea Obermeier, and Heike Stege. “Johannes Vermeer’s Mistress and Maid: New Discoveries Cast Light on Changes to the Composition and the Discoloration of Some Paint Passages.” Heritage Science 8 (2020), article no. 30. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40494-020-00375-2.
Centeno, Silvia A., Dorothy Mahon, Federico Carò, David Pullins, “Discovering the Evolution of Jacques-Louis David’s Portrait of Antoine-Laurent and Marie-Anne Pierrette Paulze Lavoisier,” Heritage Science, 2021. (an open source online journal) https://rdcu.be/cwkET
Mahon, Dorothy, “On the Conservation History of Rembrandt Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Frick Collection 1891-2018,” in Rembrandt: Conservation Histories, Archetype, 2021
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Hubertus von Sonnenburg
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