A fairly old lining with asociated stretcher, fair tension with two keys missing. Original tacking margins removed which are visible at the top of the picture from the front.

A fine network of brittle age cracquelure most noticable in between the stretcher bars, and a series of diagonal cracks in top right corner and associated with the stretcher bars. Larger scale brittle age craquelureand impack cracks more visible in the thicker, paler paint. Mostly currently stable and not elevated, with only a couple of minor slightly raised areas. Scattered tiny pinpoint losses associated with the cracking, mostly unfilled and unretouched. Fairly wide drying cracks are also evident, most prominently in the dark background and red drapery, mostly suppressed by retouching. Resulting in a slightly lumpy surface.

There is what appears to be an old lumpy filling and retouching to the top of the sitter's forearm 2 inches long, and a wider passage of restoration above the back of the chair but this is difficult to see the extent of. Further small scattered unretouched and retouched minor losses, with slightly bigger filled and retouched losses at the bottom of the landscape and in the hand. There has been some minor flaking of the upper paintlayers in the red passages, particularly the flowers. There is a brown patch of overpaint here too. It is likely that there are several campaigns of restoration (although it is difficult to see i nthe darker areas), with the retouchings in the paler areas now noticably lightened in the flesh and sky.

There has been some abrasion to the thinner paint layers, for example the hair, which has been reinforced, along with the sky. There is old dirt and varnish ingrained in the canvas weave and brushstrokes, and remnents of old discoloured varnish. One more recent white loss to arm, 1.5mm long, and a layer of dust and surface debris.

Mostly stable condition, with visible discoloured retouching.

Examined in frame, not examined under ultraviolet light.

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