Lot 27: FRANÇOIS-CLAUDE HAYETTE | Constantinople from Galata

oil on canvas

85.5 by 154cm., 33¾ by 60¾in.

oil on canvas

The overall appearance of the work is good and it is clean and ready to hang. The artist's canvas has a thin strip-lining along the four tacking edges. A faint pattern of minor stable craquelure is visible under close inspection, along with faint horizontal and vertical central stretcher marks. Ultra-violet light reveals a number of signs of retouching which are relatively minor in relation to the overall size of the painting, notably a circa 26 by 10cm restoration in the sky towards the upper-left of the composition (patched on the reverse), one circa 10 by 3cm and a second smaller area in the water to the left of the Golden Horn, a very thin 'J'-shaped minor repaired tear circa 5 by 2cm in the lower left corner (patched on the reverse), very thin intermittent strokes addressing the faint stretcher marks, and some scattered small areas of strengthening in the foreground primarily in the lower centre. Presented in a decorative gilt frame.
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