NORTH ITALIAN SCHOOL, CIRCA 1600

Condition Report

The canvas has an old relining.  Horizontal surface tear running the width of the canvas one third of the way down the composition; this has come away from the relining on the right hand side. Further three inch diagonal surface abrasion off the left border.    Extensive craquelure throughout and discoloured varnish.  Further evidence of repairs, visible to the naked eye, upper left.  Ultraviolet reveals retouching above halo, upper right, but the varnish prevents further reading.  Held in a later plaster gilt frame with chips to gilt and loss to moulding.