Antique European Crown and Cannon Oil Painting, Unframed
Antique European Crown and Cannon Oil Painting, Unframed
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A gilt crown sits on a stone ledge beside a cannon muzzle and a laced steel leg guard, all of it pulled out of a dark ground by a single light. The raised gilding on the crown is the best-preserved passage on the canvas. The composition is cut close at both sides, and I wonder if it began as the still-life corner of a larger picture, though nothing on the work confirms that. Unsigned and unidentified, it is offered as an anonymous still life in the Baroque tradition.
Antique condition consistent with age and previous restoration. The canvas has been relined and re-varnished, which was disclosed by the previous seller. The varnish is discoloured and glossy, and the surface undulates under raking light. A fine craquelure network runs throughout, with small flake losses concentrated in the darker passages. The gilded crown is noticeably better preserved than the surrounding darks. A vertical linear mark runs through the left third of the canvas, and I have not been able to determine whether it is a crease, a seam, or a stretcher bar showing through.
The painting is unframed. The canvas is tacked around the sides of a later wooden stretcher with small corner pieces, and the reverse is closed with a coarse woven backing cloth edged with paper tape. It is fitted with two D-ring hangers and picture wire, with felt bumpers at the lower corners. The stretcher is not original to the work, and the relining has likely removed any labels or marks that once appeared on the original reverse.
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