Abstract
The Harvard Art Museums have led a two-year, joint conservation and archival project on the Wertheim Collection, a group of 43 French paintings, sculptures, and drawings that was bequeathed to the museum in 1951 and has been on view in a separate gallery since 1974. Recent investigations into certain aspects of this important collection at private and institution's archives have revealed new information about Maurice Wertheim's collecting practices, the origins of some of the paintings’ frames, and the exhibition of the Collection before its arrival at Harvard. Archival documents have also contextualized and helped to advance the examinations and treatments of these singular objects by the Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies. This project has been critical for the preparation of the rehanging of the Collection at the renovated Harvard Art Museums, which will open in 2014.
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