Restorer found a picture of a pig on a staircase

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Barry Bowman, a Chicago restorer, who was assigned to the clearing of cloth "little Dutchman" Egbert van der Poole (1621 - 1644) discovered that the painting was heavily restructured in XVII century: over the grotesque raspyalennoy pig carcasses artist painted an ordinary ladder. On the opening wrote The Daily Telegraph.
According to the restorer, the carcass recorded, most likely, not the van der Pool, and another artist who made it to the buyer's request pictures. Probably he did not like the grotesque scenes.
Barry Bauman, in an article devoted to the restoration of paintings, said that raspyalennye carcasses have been a popular subject for painters of the XVII century, the Netherlands, and cites as examples two of Rembrandt's canvas with bull carcasses in 1638 and 1655's, as well as pictures of the brothers Isaac and Adriaen van Ostade.
Painting van der Pula "The barn is owned by Michigan, Calvin College. The collection of college work came through the gift of a former graduate - Cornelius Van Nyuisa. With the opening of the restorer was clear that the "American" paintings van der Pula has a pair, which is stored at Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum.
(Lenta.ru)