Slightly stiffly relined but retains a good amount of its fine and delicate brushwork, cleaned and re-varnished. Amount of pale colour mold spots to reverse of canvas. Some minor rubbing to the outer edges. Light surface dirt and discoloured varnish. Slight stretcher shadow. Delicate retouches and infilling to old stretcher shadow left-hand side. Delicate but fairly consistent retouching and infilling throughout the sky upper left-hand side, the darker tones and vegetation around the lower half of the propped fork between the prongs and that immediately around the broom looks to have had a degree of general strengthening. The lower half of the fork handle also looks to have received some sympathetic retouching/strengthening. As does some isolated areas of the cartwheel, struts, and upper part of the fork handle. More sporadic strengthening and fine retouches through parts of the crouched boys left-hand boot and to a lesser extent his right-hand boot and mildly elsewhere within the figure group which is slightly more concentrated within the waistcoat of the far right gentlemen and the discarded crimson-coloured bag. The foreground on which the crouched boy rests and the other figures and seem to have had more consistent strengthening in addition to the darker shadows behind the standing far-right figure. Areas of fine, stable cracquelure. Horizontal loss just below and left of the red flowers at lower edge ( see image/s ) approx 2-3cms in length and less than 0.5cms wide. For more information please contact the department.

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