Giovanni Fattori

Raccolta Enrico Checcucci, Firenze, n. 16;
Galleria Pesaro, Milano;
Galleria d'arte Sacerdoti, Milano, Mostra vendita di opere dell'Ottocento, 20 novembre – 12 dicembre 1954, n. 9, illustrato

Firenze, Mostra fattoriana, 1925

From a first-hand inspection a tiny loss of paint along the left hand side edge cm 4 from the top (also visible from the image in the catalogue).The ultra violet light reveals a light retouch to fill in the support defects along the top edge and two vertical retouches over the sky on the left hand side of the cowboy (cm 4 and cm 2 long).A tiny crack (cm 1) over the sky top left hand side.Ad un primo esame si nota un piccola caduta di materia pittorica lungo il margine sinistro a 4cm dall'angolo superiore (visibile da foto in catalogo).L'esame alla lampada di Wood evidenzia un leggero ritocco a chiudere i difetti della tavola lungo il bordo superiore e due leggeri ritocchi verticali nel cielo lunghi cm 4 e cm 2 alla sinistra del buttero.Una leggera felatura di cm 1 nel cielo in alto a sinistra.
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