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。

This canvas has a wax lining and is secure on a keyed strainer. The lining canvas is visible along the lateral edges of the painting when unframed, and some pooled wax from the lining process is apparent. A handful of pinprick losses are visible across the canvas, the largest of which is in the right side of Francis’s hood, and measures 0.5 x 0.25 centimeters. In the thinly painted areas of the skull at lower right and in Francis’s cloak, a pencil grid is visible beneath the painted surface. Under ultraviolet light, some pigments in the darkest areas of the composition fluoresce. The painting presents well and may be hung in its current state.