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It is on this and managed to expose the majority of fakes. Oil painting dries very slowly. For complete drying requires at least half a century. Later appear craquelure - Cracks in the picture, over time, they are multiplying. Brilliant idea Meegerena was that by clearing the previous image, write a new, carefully preserving every crack of the original podmalevki. In order to achieve the proper hardening of paints, after a long search, the artist decided to apply the latest discoveries of modern chemistry. By the end of 1934 he was able to invent such oil paints, which are in a special oven at 105 ° C hardened after two hours so that they did not take the usual solvent.

For centuries, on the surface accumulates dust paintings, which eat into the smallest cracks in the painting. Van Meegeren is a brilliant solution. After a dry layer of varnish on a painting, it covers the entire canvas with a thin layer of Chinese carcasses. Ink will seep into the cracks filled with varnish, then the artist can only wash away the Chinese ink and varnish with turpentine, and the ink has penetrated the cracks remain and creates the appearance had eaten the dust. Finally, the artist covers painting another layer of lacquer on top.

The painting took seven months of daily hard work. Finally, the artist casts a critical glance at his creation. Picture success. Remained to sign it. For days practiced van Meegeren: even the slightest, imperceptible to the naked eye delay in drawing letters may alert the suspect and graphology expert.


"Interior with players in the cards" (Pieter de Hooch)

Compiling with different paintings De Hoja (Pieter de Hoogh) the most notable drawing made from a picture of Des Hoch-drinking woman with two men and a maid (A Woman Drinking with Two Men, and a Serving Woman, c. 1658, The National Gallery, London), and the eponymous painting of Buckingham Palace (Buckingham Palace, London.)
It was sold before 1941 year, through an agent Straybisa (Strijbis) and the dealer Hogendeyka (Hoogendijk) collector Van der Worm (Van der Vorm) for 219,000 guilders (£ 550,000).
Later, van der Worm resold it Blessing Jacob (Isaac Blessing Jacob)


Interior with Cardplayers, 75 x 62 cm, oil on canvas, painted around 1939