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One means to that end was the development of painting application techniques, for example, eludoric and encaustic painting that protected vulnerable colors. reference

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He writes at length about Vincent de Montpetit's eludoric painting reference, further suggesting a connection to French court painters, or else his assumption that the authority of the Encyclopédie méthodique is more extensive than it was, as it included a long passage on that quickly-lost art.

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Vincent de Montpetit's practical response to the problem he found, and so the basis of his eludoric system of painting, was to submerge the painting in water while creating it.

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His wife, herself a painter concerned with the preservation of paintings, later opened a studio specializing in the eludoric technique and in an adapted form used to preserve finished paintings. 6 But despite the favorable mentions and awards, the process appears to have died out with its originators.

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To solve the problem of deteriorating modern paintings, Montpetit recommended both a preservation method and a new painting technique both based on his experience as a miniature painter. reference He named his new technique eludoric painting.

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There were many variations among the coloring techniques that employed pigments, and many more were proposed by a number of eighteenth-century artists, colormen, and inventors. 35 Many of the special methods that were developed during the eighteenth century disappeared quickly: Montpetit's eludoric painting and Jean-Félix Watin's peinture d'impression, are two examples.

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Vincent de Montpetit's mémoire on his eludoric technique was not the only effort to describe a theory of coloration for painting practice.

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In 1770, Vincent de Montpetit presented to the king an allegorical painting executed in the eludoric technique; it was subsequently exhibited at salons of the Académie de St-Luc and the Colisée.

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The techniques of eludoric painting, or the method of painting miniature with oil colours

The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe 2006