Tretyakov staff produced a sensational discovery

After this picture was gone. With the support of advanced technology museum conservators have found the missing painting by a textbook picture of Nikolai Ge. The scientific discovery, made ​​not long ago in fact employees of the Tretyakov Gallery, may be called sensational. Preparing for a major exhibition of paintings of Nicolas Gay, museum workers have decided to find out any hypothesis. The focus is renowned textbook canvas Ge, "What is truth?" In no way depict Jesus Christ and Pontius Pilate. In his memoirs Tatyana Tolstoy, founder of the way made friends with the artist, tells the story, allegedly ordered Ge picture above another, koiya called "Mercy." One of the art magazines 20s, including a picture and published it, but the fate of fabric itself remained unknown. "Mercy" was written in 1879, was exhibited at the 8th traveling exhibition in 1880. Caused a sudden criticism, although the work expected, since it was discovered later break ", – tells Tatyana Karpova, curator of the exhibition. Like every ancient painting, the canvas," What is truth? "Covered with small cracks, craquelure. These gaps were discussed in paint binocular microscope and noticed that a brown-beige colorful layer is greenish. Radiographs showed three fragments of a picture, actually a composite of a different picture. "It was a decision the whole picture roentgenographed, was actually made. 35 X-ray pictures with sverhunosti 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 young woman in a white dress. Museum workers have compared this scene with the only surviving pictures of the painting "Mercy." The hypothesis was confirmed. In fact, the actual Nikolay Ge ordered his masterpiece different picture from the top, there are financial reasons and disposition: Kye had never worked on the job and lived simply. This is a curious proof. Pavel Tretyakov acquired 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 unisobstvennozhal those koie considered unsuccessful. The exhibition Nikolai Ge, koiya open in the halls of the Tretyakov Gallery, will be exhibited and radiographs of any fabric. After Gay "painted" a number of his own canvases.