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A tumblr dedicated to the other side of art.

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Henri Matisse, Study for Joie de Vivre, 1905-6, oil on canvas (back panel), de Young Museum

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E. Hiernault, Still Life of the Back of a Painting with a Hebrew Bookplate, 1766, oil on canvas, Private collection

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Drawing underneath Titian, Venus with a Mirror, ca. 1555, oil on canvas, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

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Edouard Manet, A Bar at the Folies Bergere, 1882, oil on canvas, Courtauld Gallery, London

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Unknown Netherlandish artist in a manner of Hieronymus Bosch (1450-1516) and Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1526/30-1569), Christ Driving the Money-lenders from the Temple, ca. 1563-69, oil on panel. National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen

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The conservation of John Constable’s six foot sketches at the V&A

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Julius Caesar Ibbetson, painting commissioned for Kenwood House, ca. 1794 (with modern supports), Hampstead, London

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Cradled painting, source unknown

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Claude Monet, La Japonaise, oil on canvas, 1876, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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Louis-Léopold Boilly, Trompe-L'oeil with a Cat and a Log through a Canvas, oil on canvas, private collection (sold at Christie's)

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After John Webber, Poedua, oil on canvas, 1785, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

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Digital x-ray of Vincent van Gogh, Wild Roses, oil on canvas, 1890, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam

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After François-Hubert Drouais, Children at Play with Goat, oil on canvas, probably 19th century, private collection

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Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio, Madonna and Child, oil on panel, ca. 1508, Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest

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Cornelis Gijsbrechts, Reverse Side of a Painting, oil on canvas, 1670, Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen