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The present work, titled Portrait of a German Gentleman , is attributed to F. Schlotterbeck on the basis of an inscription on the verso, which also records the date 1856. According to the technical information presently available, the painting is executed in oil on cardboard and measures approximately 60 40 cm.
The present work is executed in oil on a cardboard support, a material choice that distinguishes it from more conventional canvas-based portraiture of the nineteenth century. While such supports were not uncommon in more modest contexts, they are inherently more sensitive to environmental conditions, particularly fluctuations in humidity, which can result in deformation and surface instability. The later adhesion to a wooden stretcher should be understood as a structural adaptation rather than part of the original
The present painting was professionally conserved by Gian Piero Maiorano, and the full Restoration Report will be included in the page dedicated to the artwork in the Atlantiques Gallery. The following section provides a concise summary of the intervention as documented in that report, together with the accompanying photographic sequence showing the progress of treatment on both the front and the back of the work. 0.32 \scriptsize Front before treatment, with extensive surface accretions, discoloration, and heavy v
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