Jacques Courtois, called Il Borgognone

Raymond Sancery, Paris, according to a label on the stretcher;
Private collection.

Oil on canvas. Surface dirt and a dirty, yellow varnish. An area of inpaint, duller than the rest of the work, visible in the clouds at upper right with associated lifting. Lifting with associated loss along the right edge. The impasto retains a bit of texture. Under UV light, the varnish fluoresces green, though a few scattered spots of older inpaint are visible. The previously mentioned inpaint in the sky at upper right fluoresces as do a few small scattered spots along the edges.
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