Figure 7From: Faded shine…. The degradation of brass powder in two nineteenth century paintingsSEM–EDX images (×10000 magnification) of the brass pigment surface in the cross sections of the samples collected from a Reading pastor by F. Hodler and b Portrait of a young girl (1888) by F. Franzoni. The rough and pitted nature of the metal foil surface could be due to a dezincification corrosion process.Back to article page