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Jean,
Apart from many hours of studio practice on W.B's hands, you might wish to look into the "ghost", formed by scraping down on an oil painting. Also see W.B's earlier work, before he was forty, especially any unfinished work. (There is a "ghost" in the Cartoon practice as well.)
His oil studies and oil sketches were very finished, so like the practice today of working off of photographs, he could work off of his studies. Due to the superiority of taste he had in his studies, he avoided the pitfalls brought on when using photographs.
From what I can see, W.B. is a direct link in the line of established painter's practices, starting with Titian, and coming through Rubens, Van Dyck, Vermeer and temporarily ending at Bouguereau.
Unless a museum prints which pigments were found in an oil painting by scientific means, beware of past accounts of what is in the paint layer.)
Time to take the baton back up.
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Khaimraj
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