The painting is lined, all keys present, slightly slack tension. There is a quantity of debris behind the bottom stretcher. Original tacking margins removed, as can be seen at the face where they are exposed inside the frame sight. There are old associated retouched losses, and overpaint extends the natural edge of the paint in places.

There a finescale and a largescale network of brittle age and impact craquelure throughout, with large passages of lifting and active flaking, particularly to the right through the arm and cloak and to the left side of the head and ajacent background. These area have had a history of flaking and loss, and older losses are filled and retouched. Newer losses are unretouched. The retouching is matte in places. In the rest of the painting, the cracks are lifting slightly and there are scattered further smaller losses, some retouched.

There are thick old varnish layers, yellowed and fairly opaque so difficult to see if there is further overpaint in the background. There are patches of a thick gritty material to the left lapel, to the left lower edge, and in the top right corner.

Scattered scuffs and surface abrasions, and a patchy, uneven surface gloss. There is a thick layer of surface dirt and dark scattered accretions.

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