Technique

The skin was modelled in four different shades. A green curtain and orangey brown pastel were scumbled across the background.

See further details in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1386).

Conservation History

The board was commercially prepared. On the recto, the paper has a slight sheen and faint vertical grain. The verso has slightly bevelled edges, which is unusual, and a stronger vertical grain, but is similarly fibrous, with wood-stalk fragments. There is a small hole in the paper, just below the sofa.