Louis Emile Adan La récolte des pommes

Louis Emile Adan
French
1839 - 1937
La récolte des pommes

signed L. Emile Adan (lower right)
oil on canvas
canvas: 21 3/8 by 28 3/4 in.; 54.8 by 73 cm
framed: 29 1/2 by 37 in.; 73.6 by 93.9 cm

Condition Report:
The canvas is unlined. The paint surface is stable and in good condition. Minor patterns of craquelure upon close inspection. Scratch extending from the upper edge at left approximately 2 inches in length. Under UV light, retouching to aforementioned scratch and in places to the leaves of the four trees, to the tree trunk at left, to the base of the foreground tree, in the lower right quadrant above and to the left of the signature, and to the standing figure's head, back, and skirt.
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