The following condition report has been provided by Simon Parkes of Simon Parkes Art Conservation, Inc. 502 East 74th St. New York, NY 212-734-3920, simonparkes@msn.com , an independent restorer who is not an employee of Sotheby's. This work on panel has no reinforcements on the reverse. The panel is slightly curved from left to right and the painting has been recently restored. There are restorations in the ledge on which Christ stands and although there are noticeable retouches under ultraviolet light here and there in the center of the picture, it is only in the sky and the top half of the painting generally, including the faces and necks of the figures, where the restorations become more numerous. Although the condition is quite compromised in these areas, the restoration is nonetheless competent.
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Attached to the reverse of this panel is a note dated June 1923 from R. Gleadowe of the National Gallery, London, in which Gleadowe suggests that the present work is Umbrian, and influenced by Francesco Francia. Another note on the panel, written by a Bishop Edward Halbert and dated March 1925, reiterates Gleadowe's sentiments, and adds that Charles Holmes, former director of the National Gallery, Sir Herbert Cook, and Collins Baker all considered the work of high quality when they viewed it in person.