Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Maria Alexandrovna by Winterhalter (1857, Hermitage) 2FXD.jpg

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Portrait of Empress Maria Alexandrovna
  • Ask yourself, if we don't remove the patina on an FP of this, why should we remove it from other paintings? Restauration work on oil paintings should be done by a professional conservator-restorer to reveal the original colors, not by Photoshop. --Cart (talk) 20:08, 11 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Thank you for your clarification. I confess that I recently went to see the Mona Lisa and I confess that I found a painting with the "original" or restored colors, very different from the image I had of the Mona Lisa for so many years. It left me with a taste of falseness in my mouth, and all the paintings seemed bluish. I still have that feeling of having seen a fake Mona Lisa, even though I know it was the original. In some old objects such as coins, restoring them reduces their value because during the restoration process the passage of time is removed and sometimes implies destruction of something. I remember having taken some other photos (not in the Louvre) where the light was yellow and direct on the painting, which made the painting turn yellowish and with a reflection that I had to carefully remove in post-production, but it was not easy to find a reference point for the true color without removing the natural coloring of the painting. Wilfredor (talk) 22:42, 11 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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Result: 8 support, 1 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /-- Radomianin (talk) 21:27, 20 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
This image will be added to the FP gallery: Non-photographic media/People#Portraits
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