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Micro to Nano: Multiscale IR Analyses Reveal Zinc Soap Heterogeneity in a 19th-Century Painting by Corot

Xiao Ma
Georges Pavlidis
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Eoghan P. Dillon
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Jeffrey J. Schwartz
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Ferenc Borondics
Kevin J. Kjoller
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Barbara H. Berrie
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Formation and aggregation of metal carboxylates (metal soaps) can degrade the appearance and integrity of oil paints, challenging efforts to conserve painted works of art. Endeavors to understand the root cause of metal soap formation have been hampered by the limited spatial resolution of Fourier transform infrared microscopy (μ-FTIR). We overcome this limitation using optical photothermal infrared spectroscopy (O-PTIR) and photothermal-induced resonance (PTIR), two novel methods that provide IR spectra with ≈500 and ≈10 nm spatial resolutions, respectively. The distribution of chemical phases in thin sections from the top layer of a 19th-century painting is investigated at multiple scales (μ-FTIR ≈ 102μm3, O-PTIR ≈ 10-1μm3, PTIR ≈ 10-5μm3). The paint samples analyzed here are found to be mixtures of pigments (cobalt green, lead white), cured oil, and a rich array of intermixed, small (often â 0.1 μm3) zinc soap domains. We identify Zn stearate and Zn oleate crystalline soaps with characteristic narrow IR peaks (≈1530-1558 cm-1) and a heterogeneous, disordered, water-permeable, tetrahedral zinc soap phase, with a characteristic broad peak centered at ≈1596 cm-1. We show that the high signal-To-noise ratio and spatial resolution afforded by O-PTIR are ideal for identifying phase-separated (or locally concentrated) species with low average concentration, while PTIR provides an unprecedented nanoscale view of distributions and associations of species in paint. This newly accessible nanocompositional information will advance our knowledge of chemical processes in oil paint and will stimulate new art conservation practices.
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hal-03625842 , version 1 (31-03-2022)

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Xiao Ma, Georges Pavlidis, Eoghan P. Dillon, Victòria Beltran, Jeffrey J. Schwartz, et al.. Micro to Nano: Multiscale IR Analyses Reveal Zinc Soap Heterogeneity in a 19th-Century Painting by Corot. Analytical Chemistry, 2022, 94 (7), pp.3103-3110. ⟨10.1021/acs.analchem.1c04182⟩. ⟨hal-03625842⟩
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