Still Life with Blue Vase

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This report was prepared by Simon Parkes Art Conservation, Inc.:
This work is in beautiful state. It is on one of two canvases on the stretcher. While in theory the second canvas could be a lining, it seems that both canvases are from the same period. The artist may have stretched two canvases in order to support his vigorous scraping technique. The painting is well stretched, clean and varnished. There are a few dots in the upper center of the right side and two spots in the center of the left side that seem to be retouches. The other colors that read slightly darker here and there throughout the remainder of the picture, for instance across the top of the picture, seem to be original pigment.