"Conservators Lance Mayer and Gay Myers present a wealth of technical information amid amusing anecdotes and eccentric artistic profiles

and restoration

The sum is an unusually detailed and interdisciplinary analysis of the creation and fate of a historical and artistic treasure

ISBN 978-0-89236-968-3

Jan Steen: The Drawing Lesson CONS "Conservators Lance Mayer and GayJohn Walsh Clear, solid, palpable, this is the world of the Dutch painters of the seventeenth centurya world in which the surfaces and scenes of everyday life are rendered with impeccable care and illuminated by clear, soft light. Through the countless reproductions of the works of painters like de Hooch and Vermeer, these scenes have become intimately familiar: servants at their kitchen chores; women reading, daydreaming, or playing music; risqu and