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Fig. 4

From: Congregation leaving the Reformed Church in Nuenen by Vincent van Gogh: a combined multi-instrumental approach to analyse the painting’s stratigraphy in support of varnish removal

Fig. 4

OCT results collected at spots OCT15 (a) and OCT21 (b). White lines in the macrophotographs mark the exact location and direction of the OCT tomograms. Layers visible: (1) initial paint layers from 1884, (2) Van Gogh’s initial varnish from 1884, (3, 3a) Van Gogh’s painted addition from 1885, (4) later, non-original varnish layer(s) from the 1961 restoration treatment. Yellow arrows mark the discontinuity of the paint layer

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