What if a masterpiece wasn’t showing its real colors for 65 years?
Using carefully tested solvents, a conservator removes layers added in the 1940s–50s that yellowed and distorted the original vision of Henri Rousseau.
Watch “The Sleeping Gypsy” come back to life.
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