Notes sur la peinture à la cire cautérisée: ou, Procédé encaustique d'après les laborieuses recherches de Paillot de Montabert

Abstract

Waxes have always played an important part in the materials of the artist. See R. Mayer, The artist’s handbook of materials and techniques (1941), who states: “Most researches on ancient wax painting were done in the middle or late nineteenth century when the subject was apparently of greater interest to painters than it is today.” That was 1941. Today there is much interest in the historical processes used by artists. The present work is thorough and well illustrated and looks as if it was a manual for contemporary painters as well as an historical treatise. (Charles Wood, 160/132)