Slight quilting to the canvas evident at the reverse. All keys present, slighly slack tension. Original tacking margins loose and rucked. Old patch, delaminating slightly to the bottom right from the reverse, associated with a tear or damage in the bottom left quadrant of the painting running approx. 12cm diagonally through the table legs (see images). This is filled and retouched (slightly matt), with a few small losses of filling material.

The paint is very textured and impasted, and there is a brittle age craquelure throughout, which has caused the quilting at the reverse. Secure, and no major problem with flaking/ lifting. Some small unretouched losses at the top left and bottom left corners, and tinly losses at some edges. A few tiny flaked losses from impasto, and a few scattered very small losses including an approx 0.3 loss from behind the heal of the shoe on the floor. Possible retouching to exposed reserves below the sole of shoe on floor - but possibly by the artist?

There has been some slight abrasion to surface layers along bottom edge from movement within frame. A glossy varnish, fairly thick, with some debris caught in the varnish/paint in places. Some brown lines/drips? in the floor (see images), it is unclear what these are.

Examined in frame, not examined in UV

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