OUR REFERENCES

• Laboratoire de Recherche des Monuments Historiques (the French Historical Monuments Research Laboratory), Champs/ Marne, France.
• Architectes en Chefs des Monuments Historiques (Architects-in-Chief of Historical Monuments in France), ACMH.
• Directions Régionales des Affaires Culturelles (French Ministry of Cultural Affairs Regional Head Offices) in the following regions: Ile de France (the Paris area), Lorraine, Aquitaine, Centre, Midi- Pyrénées, Brittany, Corsica, and Languedoc-Roussillon.
• Centre Georges Pompidou, MNAM (the French National Modern Art Museum), Paris.
• Musée d’Art et d’Histoire, Geneva.
• Abbeg Foundation, Riggisberg, near Bern, Switzerland.

SOME PREVIOUS STUDIES

• Characterisation of deposits on a stone podium, part of the Monument to the Republic in Paris.
• Study of fragments of polychrome work from a draped decor in stucco and lead, from the choir area of Chartres Cathedral, near Paris.
• Study of wall painting samples from the synagogue at Doura Europos in Syria.
• Characterisation and study of damage incurred in 1994 to N. Coypel’s gilded paintings dating from the 17th century at the Brittany Parliament in Rennes.
• Study of the original colours used in Louis XVI’s bathroom at Versailles.
• Analysis of varnish used in a painting (support - paper taped onto canvas) by R. Dufy dating from the fi rst half of the 20th century.
Analysis of a sample of metal from a twentieth-century sculpture by L. Chadwick.
• Analysis of a gilded silver chalice from Belmont Sur Lausanne, Switzerland, dating from the start of the 15th century.
• Study of fragments of stained glass window from the Sainte Marie Cathedral at Auch in the south-west of France.