ENTOURAGE D'AGAPIT STEVENS | Elegant lady in an interior

original canvas; slightly warmer tones in reality than on the catalogue illustration; network of craquelures (neglibible in relation to the size of the painting), especially in the top right side in the flowers, on the head of the cheetah on the right, in the left bottom side on the floor; some craquelures scattered on the surface; some repeints on the flesh (left breast, left rib, left shoulder, near the neck, near the parting on the hair lock above the left eye, wrists and forearms) and on the chin and left cheek, on the bridge of the nose and on the left eye corner; one long and important repaint along the spine; some little repaints scattered across the surface
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