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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;James Bianco, post: 316906, member: 6413&quot;][ATTACH=full]105252[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]105253[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]105253[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]105258[/ATTACH] You can get an idea of what I mean from these photos using strong backlight</p><p><br /></p><p>The stretcher is large and was not original as it has been relined and &quot;repaired&quot; so I can&#039;t get the light to penetrate key areas which are covered completely in black which are much later. It will cost $1000 to restore so I plan on doing that someday. The 1880 Auction was from the estate of Carolina Mathilda Henrietta Huydecoper-van den Heuvel, who was the direct descendant of Petrus Van Der Hagen through her paternal grandmother, and the painting was in the family from c.1660 until her death in 1880.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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