Pierre Antoine Patel le Jeune

A l'œil nu, le tableau est dans un état de conservation relativement satisfaisant. Il a fait l'objet d'un réentoilage dans la seconde moitié du XXe siècle, un peu fort, qui a un peu tassé la matière. Il a fait l'objet d'un nettoyage récent. Certains glacis des zones sombres ont pu disparaître. A la lampe UV : On constate une bande de 5 cm le long du bord gauche avec un réseau de craquelures un peu prononcé. Il y a quelques restaurations dans l'architecture, l'eau, le pont, le sol, les arbres. Reprises ponctuelles dans le ciel. To the naked eye, the painting is in a reasonnably good condition. It has been relined in the second half of the XXth century. It flattened the painted surface a bit. It has been recently cleaned. Some of the glazing in the darker areas might have been a bit vanished. Under the UV light : we can see a 5 cm strip along the left edge with a network of cracks. There are some restorations in the architecture, the water, the bridge, the ground, the trees. Few small touches of restoration in the sky.
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