In Allegory of Marriage, how is the Conservation discussed?
According to Ricketts, the Allegory in the Louvre was by 1910 in a "shocking state of partial damage by abrading and retouching, and by centuries of dirt". The two ladies, as is often the case with popular pictures, have in his view been "terribly retouched", and some damage has happened to the exposed bosom of the woman who holds the crystal, some abrasure of the pigment, due possibly to the removal of an added drapery which at one time may have covered it.
retouching Louvre pigment Allegory