"Patch of Grass" was painted by van Gogh in Paris in 1887. Behind the painting is a "lost" portrait of a woman revealed through the use of X-ray Fluorescence Elemental Mapping.
J. Dik, K. Janssens, G. Van Der Snickt, L. van der Loeff, K. Rickers, M. Cotte, Anal. Chem. 2008, 80, 6436. News story from July 30, 2008: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25934213/

Kimberly Chenoweth
Sabin-Reed 334
email: kchenowe@email.smith.edu
phone: 585-6992
Appointments welcome

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