Left: Infrared image of Portrait of Mateu Fernández de Soto
Right: X-ray image of Portrait of Mateu Fernández de SotoDepartment of Conservation, The Courtauld Institute of Art, London
Looks like a creepy skull with square eye sockets in the top right portion of the x-rayed canvas.
VEry cool discovery. I have often painted over a previous painting simply beczuse materials are expensive and time consuming to make znd prep. I usually sand down the paint layer a bit first though but it doesn’t ob,iterate the painting altogether
BOGO special?