拍品的状况可能存在极大差异，而由于其性质使然，拍品难以处于完美无瑕的状态。拍品均以拍卖时的状况出售。

Close examination of the painting confirms it to be in a very good state of preservation beneath an aged varnish. The relined canvas maintains a good tension and remains structurally stable. While the texture of the paint is uniform as a consequence of the lining treatment, the integrity of the artist’s painterly technique has been very well preserved, particularly in the modelling and subtleties of gradation of colour. Some minute specks of abrasion are visible in the surface of the sitter’s face and upper left of the canvas. Ultraviolet examination confirms the above and the presence of a thick aged varnish.