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。
The panel measures approximately 3/16 inch thick and has been cradled on the reverse. The paint is stable on the support and there is a moderate drying craquelure evident throughout much of the composition. The varnish is cloudy and yellowed. Scuffing due to frame abrasion is visible along all four edges. Three horizontal cracks are visible in the panel, including two that measure approximately 2 inches in length at upper left and center right, respectively, and a third hairline crack that extends horizontally through the lower third of the panel. Two small dots of paint loss are visible along the hairline crack just to the right of the woman standing in the archway where Mass is being said. Under ultraviolet light, lines of strengthening to mend the drying cracks at right and fine strokes of strengthening to the architecture at left fluoresce, as do strokes along the repaired cracks and a passage in the black garments of the two figures with their backs turned at lower right. The painting would likely benefit from a cleaning and more sensitively applied touches of strengthening to the cracks, figures and architecture.
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