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Did you know that 150 years ago the work of the color merchant was very close to that
of the pharmacist, that is to say that of the apothecary.
He found there many of the ingredients that made up his paintings.
And some of these ingredients were pieces of mummies, straight from Alexandria.
From the Renaissance, doctors reduced powdered mummies to cure diseases.
And King Francis I never traveled without a piece of mummy, just in case!
As for the color manufacturer, he turned it into a very particular dark reddish brown
and much appreciated by painters, called the mummy brown.
Because in the 19th century, after the Bonaparte expedition to Egypt, the sarcophagi were pillaged
for their treasures, and there were also many mummies!
Some historians estimate that 400 million mummies are buried in Egyptian territory,
including animal mummies.
As proof, in 2015, 8 million animal mummies were found in a single vault, exactly in Memphis,
the former Egyptian capital.
And everything is good in the mummy!
It should be noted that at the end of the 19th century, the British imported lot of
mummies, turning them into fertilizer, and some saiy that they were used as fuel for
steam locomotives.
It is also in England that this color takes off, and a color manual published in London
proclaims that the best brown used in glaze by the president of the Royal Academy, is
"of the flesh of the mummy, whose fleshy parts are the best »
This use of the mummy brown coincides with the Romantic period and some painters see
a kind of immortality of the work.
It is in this same Romantic period that Théophile Gautier describes how it was fashionable in
the high society of the time to unwrap a piece of mummy, like a foot, or a head!
The "Mummy Brown" is in store until around 1925, but can still be found in London in
the 60s.
Color manufacturers call it Mummy Brown or Caput Mortuum.
Caput Mortuum which means "dead head" and that meant chemical residues from which nothing
can be drawn anymore.
These two colors have long been confused to become one and are made from PR101 iron oxide.
This pigment is sometimes called the Mars Violet
Colors No. 919 at Sennelier, It is an opaque color found in watercolor and artist oil
under the name of Caput Mortuum, and in artist acrylic under the name of Mars Violet.
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