Tommaso Ruiz

Copper is flat and stable. The picture presents a lovely image with nice retention of paint surface and coloration and may be hung in its present state. Ultraviolet reveals tiny retouches here and there with some larger areas of retouching at upper left corner, upper right edge, and lower right and left corners. In addition, a line of retouching, probably to repair an old scratch in the painting's surface, runs from the sky through the lower left side of the mountain to the left of Vesuvius. All of these retouches, however, have been applied well, and no further work is recommended, and, as mentioned above, painting may be hung as is. In a carved and giltwood frame with some minor abrasion to the gilding.
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