Franz Wolfgang Rohrich

Collection Sir Robert Gresley, Drakelowe, Burton-on-Trent (d'après une étiquette au dos).

The photography is slightly too red. The painting is made on one softwood and non-craddle plank. The painting is in overall good condition. There is a very nice network of uniform cracks, some slight retouchings in the stoat collar of the children. Under UV lamp: The painting is under a uniform green and very thick varnish. There are some thin retouchings of texture in the cracks in the right part of the face of the woman, up to the hat, on her shoulder, around the monogram at the left and under her elbow on the left. There are some retouchings in the face of the children and in his stoat collar. All these restorations have been made locally and are very well done.
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Une autre version de ce tableau a été présentée chez Sotheby's Londres, 12 juillet 2001, lot 147.