Portrait of Suzanne
Oil on Canvas
This beautiful portrait of his wife Suzanne from French artist Émile Nickels (1850-1910) was very grey and had many small perforations and tears. There was also a tear at the right side of the sitter that had been roughly mended and painted over. The treatment involved the careful removal of the thick jute used to mend the tear and the overpaint - which revealed that the original tear was much smaller than originally thought.
