The staff made a sensational discovery of the Tretyakov Gallery

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Employees of the Tretyakov Gallery have found the missing picture of Nikolai Ge. Cloth "Mercy," written in the late 19th century, it was shown publicly only once - in a traveling exhibition. After that, the picture disappeared. With the help of modern technology museum conservators have found the missing painting by another textbook picture of Nikolai Ge.

Scientific discovery recently made by members of the Tretyakov Gallery, can be called sensational. Preparing for a major exhibition of paintings of Nicolas Gay, museum workers have decided to test some hypotheses. The focus was textbook famous painting Ge "What is truth?", Which depicts Jesus Christ and Pontius Pilate.

In his memoirs Tatyana Tolstoy, whose father was friends with the artist, they say, if Gay painted on top of another, called "Mercy." One of the art magazines 20s even published a photograph, but the fate of the paintings and remained unknown.

"Mercy" was written in 1879, was exhibited at the 8th traveling exhibition in 1880. Provoked sharp criticism, even though the work expected, because it appeared after the break, "- says Tatiana Karpova, curator of the exhibition.

As every antique painting, canvas, "What is truth?" Covered with fine cracks, craquelure. These breaks in the paint looked a binocular microscope and noticed that a brown-beige colorful layer is greenish. Radiographs of the three fragments of pictures showed that the composition has a different picture.

"It was a decision the whole picture roentgenographed that was done. 35 X-rays from the surface of the picture in 1933 - not an easy job ", - said Lydia Gladkova, head of the department of scientific expertise of the State Tretyakov Gallery.

Pictures combined. In black and white guess Christ, followed by a girl in a white dress. Museum workers have compared the scene with the only surviving photograph of the painting "Mercy." The hypothesis was confirmed.

The fact that Nikolai Ge wrote his masterpiece on top of another picture, there are reasons of an economic nature: Fe has never worked on the job and lived modestly.

This is an interesting confirmation. Pavel Tretyakov bought from the artists work in the author frames. Do they differ Gay - simple, made of oak. Not characteristic of the 19th century.

Ge was incredibly demanding on yourself. He made hundreds of sketches for paintings. Ruthlessly destroyed by those who considered unsuccessful.

Nikolai Ge The exhibition, which opens in the halls of the Tretyakov Gallery will exhibit paintings and some radiographs. After Gay "painted" some of his canvases.

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