The single panel is flat, stable, uncradled and bevelled on all four edges. The paint surface is secure and under a thick dirty yellowed varnish. There is a thin vertical hairline crack upper left. There are scattered retouchings and strengthenings visible to the naked eye. Further inspection under UV light is rendered impossible by the varnish. Offered in a wood and plaster gilt frame.
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The present painting may be compared to a similar composition by Bijlert, listed by Nicholson as in a Private Collection, Ireland (see B. Nicholson, Caravaggism in Europe, Italy 1989, vol. III, pl. 1349, reproduced).