Ecole napolitaine du XVIIe siècle

Maurizio Canesso, Paris

Respectable overall condition. The painting has been correctly relined. There is a paint loss in the décolleté of St. Catherine, visible to the naked eye and in the catalogue illustration. Under ultraviolet light: Under a green uniform varnish. Some retouches in the background, upper left, around and on the hair of St. Catherine. The lower part has also been retouched, on the left and on the dress of the saint, on the right. There is a restoration along each side of her left arm (from 1 to 1,5 cm high). Some glazes have been reinforced in the flesh of her forehead, her left cheek, her neck and her left wrist. A few dots of repaint are visible in the drapery of her left sleeve.
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