X-radiograph(s) of "Children Plqying at the Tuileries" 

Curator: This is an X-radiograph of "Children Playing at the Tuileries," originally by Édouard Manet, now residing at the Harvard Art Museums. Editor: It feels like a ghostly snapshot. All the hidden layers and pentimenti are laid bare. Curator: Precisely. The radiographic process reveals subsurface details, giving us insights into Manet's compositional process. We can examine the artist's underlying structure and choices. Editor: It's like seeing the painting's bones. You get a feel for the evolution of the composition. What was changed or discarded. I think it adds another layer of intimacy, somehow. Curator: Indeed. It disrupts our typical reading of the surface, drawing attention to the material objecthood and the artist's hand in its making. Editor: I love the idea that technology lets us see the past lives embedded within a single work. Curator: An apt description; the image transforms Manet's painting into a visual palimpsest.