The painting is lined, and there is a loose extra canvas to the back of the painting. All keys are present and the canvas has fair tension. Original tacking margins removed. In places the original canvas edges have been filled and overpainted and these are lifting and cracking in places for example the middle of the right edge and middle of the top edge. The impasto has been slighly flattened in the lining process.

Old brittle age and impact craquelure throughout along with cracking along the stretcher bars. Very slighly elevated and cuppefd in places but all appears secure with no history of flaking or loss. Some of the cracks along with drying cracks are fairly wide, especially across the middle of the painting in a horizontal band, which have been retouched (see images). There are small scattered retouched losses, for example midway between the hind hoof and the ledge, and to the left of the far fore hock. Futher discoloured retouchings top left corner.

There is some minor unretouched abbrasion to the figures and the landscape, but there has been some abrasion to the sky, possibly retouched/strengthened with thin scumbles of overpaint. It is difficult to see the extent of this.

The picture has been partially cleaned in the past, with an old yellowed varnish left on in the figures and landscape. This autofluoresces green under uv, with darker lines over this possibly artists retouchings. The old varnish has slighly broken up and cloudy/crizzled, for example in the top hat. There is milky white residue above the bright green patch of grass, and scattered dirt and debris. There are a series of matt spots across the surface.

Examined in frame

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