拍品的狀況可能存在極大差異，而由於其性質使然，拍品難以處於完美無瑕的狀態。拍品均以拍賣時的狀況出售。

This relined canvas is held under tension and remains stable. There is some paint shrinkage visible in the darker passages, such as in the shadows of the military costume and in the background. In raking light, restoration is visible in the craquelure and to a damage to the left of the sitter’s face (visible in the illustration). Ultraviolet examination confirms the above and reveals more extensive restoration to the lighter tones of the sitter’s face, with infilling of some of the diagonal patterns of craquelure across his face and elsewhere, such as by his right shoulder. The delicacy of the artist’s brushstrokes, particularly in the eyes, remains appreciable.