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Chapter 238 Restoration of "Portrait of Louis XIV"! (seeking subscription)

When Chu Liutian brought Chuhe and the others to stand in front of the Palace of Versailles, they were all stunned.

This is simply another Forbidden City!

Chu Liutian introduced next to him: "The area where the Palace of Versailles is located was originally a forest and swamp wasteland. In 1624, King Louis XIII bought 1 acres of wasteland at a price of 117 livres. A two-story red brick building used as a hunting lodge."

Chu Liutian pointed to the second floor and said, "The second floor is the king's office, bedroom, reception room, etc. This Palace of Versailles has served as the court of France for a hundred years."

Xue Lanqi and Li Xiaoqing liked it very much, and when they watched it, they seemed to have forgotten their mission this time.

The garden of Versailles is very large, and the two of them are like tourists here, looking at the grass for a while, and the flowers for a while.

Soon, Chu Liutian saw a middle-aged man approaching, and he immediately introduced to everyone: "This is Mr. Simon, and he is the curator of the Palace of Versailles."

Zhang Yongjin stretched out his hand first, while Chu Liutian and Mr. Simon introduced Zhang Yongjin.

When Mr. Simon heard it, he was surprised and said: "Welcome to France, my distinguished guests."

In terms of etiquette, France is indeed very good. He immediately asked the staff to give Chuhe and the others a backpack.

Chu Liutian did not forget to introduce Chuhe and the others, "These are excellent cultural relic restorers from the Eastern Kingdom."

"Okay, okay, I need everyone's help this time." Simon immediately led Chuhe and the others into the Palace of Versailles.

The Palace of Versailles is very large. When you walk into the Hall of Mirrors, the crystal chandeliers above make you feel gorgeous, and the statues on the side are even more glittering with gold leaf.

Chu He looked at the wall and found that there were many floor-to-ceiling mirrors in the corridor.

And those floor-to-ceiling mirrors seemed a little damaged, and the expression on Chuhe's face was captured by Mr. Simon.

He immediately explained: "In fact, there are many kinds of damage in the Palace of Versailles, if you can, Mr. Chuhe."

Mr. Simon didn't ask directly, but anyone could guess that he wanted Chuhe and the others to help repair the Palace of Versailles.

Chuhe just couldn't find an excuse to ask for the "Picture of the Admonishment of Women's History". Now that the curator has asked to help them restore the Palace of Versailles, he can exchange it.

So he promised: "No problem, we will do our best."

When Simon heard this, he was very surprised, because he was extremely embarrassed to invite Chuhe and the others to restore the portrait, and now he has to trouble others to repair the Palace of Versailles, which he really can't make.

As a result, Chu He's promise made Simon feel that he was indeed an Oriental!

"You can use your search engine to sort out all the models and styles of floor mirrors on the market. After we restore the portrait, we can restore it according to the characteristics of the palace." Chu He suggested.

Simon immediately asked his staff to hurry up and arrange this matter.

Soon, Simon took them to see "Portrait of Louis XIV"!
They looked up at the murals, and couldn't help being surprised.

Chu Liutian introduced from the side: "This oil painting is a portrait of Louis XIV. Louis XIV was the king of the heyday of the French feudal monarchy and was known as the Sun King."

"In this portrait, we can see Louis XIV posing in an invincible and supreme posture. The painter Rigaud used extremely superb realistic modeling skills to describe the king's appearance and demeanor in detail."

"Using delicate brushstrokes and colors, he carefully portrayed the noble costumes, scepters, swords and surrounding environment props that symbolize authority." Chu Liutian praised this oil painting without reservation.

Zhang Yongjin couldn't help but nodded, indeed, to a certain extent, the level of creation of this oil painting is indeed very good.

Mr. Simon was also chirping at the side, after Chu Liutian's translation: "At the age of 29, the painter Rigo was hired as the court painter of Louis XIV, specializing in painting portraits of princes and nobles. A real person is more noble."

Chu He nodded and commented: "Indeed, in terms of painting skills, not only the sketch is extremely precise, but also the colors are rich, which can portray the texture and sense of space of the characters, clothing and environment."

Chuhe motioned to Mr. Simon to order someone to take down the painting.

In the process of unloading, Chuhe found that on the surface of the work, there were many hollow spaces due to cracks falling off or excessive damage.

In fact, the protection of portraits in foreign countries is very rough.

Chuhe knew this a long time ago, but he didn't expect that they didn't even protect the surface.

Chuhe couldn't help being a little speechless, this is completely avoidable!
These hollows need to be filled with white paste, which is completely different from the previous restoration of domestic landscape paintings.

So Chuhe also explained to Yang Shuo and others.

"If it is filled with white glue, it will have more flexibility and space, and there will be less unevenness when filling, and the maintenance degree will be longer than that of cream filling."

After hearing this, Xue Lanqi immediately took out the water-based animal glue from the backpack held by the staff without saying a word.

Chuhe smiled, "Lan Qi still understands what I mean."

Yang Shuo said harshly: "I understand, but I just didn't think of it for a moment."

Li Xiaoqing and Dong Lufan also laughed and joked.

Seeing that Chuhe and the others seemed to have a plan in mind, Mr. Simon immediately arranged for a room to be repaired.

After everything was ready, Chuhe said to Yang Shuo and others, "Let's start."

Xue Langqi took out the water-based animal glue and heated it with water.

And Yang Shuo found a little honey and slaked lime, applied the heated white paste on the hollow space, and shaped the corresponding strokes with the surrounding.

After filling in the white paste, Chu He began to add color.

The Chu River guides the white slurry through a small glass tube, flowing from the mouth of the beaker to the top of the oil painting.

Dong Lufan also held a glass tube and repaired it on the other side of the painting.

Mr. Simon and others were watching, and they were very surprised.

Because they found that Chuhe and Dong Lufan were not nervous at all. They were facing a priceless oil painting, but their hands did not show any signs of shaking.

Their hands are still firmly placed one centimeter away from the oil painting.

When Simon saw that the Chu River was filling the gaps with white pulp, from the horizontal plane, there was no raised place at all, and every place was just covered!

Simon: "Oh my god, this is really amazing!"

Chu Liutian couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "Yes, it's really amazing."

Zhang Yongjin stroked his beard and said with a smile: "Basic skills, basic skills, these are all from basic skills."

(End of this chapter)