The example with milk maid – cleaned and revarnished. Now a reasonable amount of surface dirt and discoloured varnish. There is little to perceived under a UV light in terms of restoration or later paint, however with the naked eye one can see approx. 4 areas of retouching which have discoloured at a different rate to original paint. These are upper left hand side edge. To approx. centre and just left of centre around 5cm below the canopy of trees and another directly above the goats head. The largest is not entirely uniform but is approx. 1-1.5cm by 0.5cm. Isolated fine stable craquelure.

Example with shepherd – There is a small amount of sporadic small sized retouching within the canopy of the trees on the left hand side towards outer edge and elsewhere within the trees although insignificant. There is the odd further minor dash of retouching to edges and elsewhere. Cleaned and revarnished. Some surface dirt and disclosed varnish now in evidence. Isolated fine stable craquelure. Similar slightly paler patch of paint just right of centre background to that seen on the other example. Minor rubbing to some edges and slight transference of gilt paint to upper edge. Paint slightly thin in places on each example. Both broadly in good stable condition.

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