Helped establish the authorship of the monogram

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Сообщение от K-Maler

Signed a bit tasteless and rude is drawn too ...

live, I would not say. In reality, the height of the letters of 4 mm.

Сообщение от K-Maler

In larger piece with the signature through the painting reveals the "crumbs" ... 150 years ago did not allow themselves to leave the ground without grinding (it's the artists allowed themselves much later). These chips can be seen in modern soils, because difficult to buy tonkoterty chalk and dry zinc white, too, leave a crumb.

true. It should be noted that the soil is very thin and the tree structure is clearly visible through the paint layer. However, this natural pattern of wood, in my view, skillfully used by the artist and the "integrated" in the samples in words "cracks of old age" on a cup in the background.

Сообщение от K-Maler

Maybe it is a copy or a fake or just "in the style of" those "still-lifes.

Perhaps.
But in any case the old.
Board light as a feather. Baguette really very similar to the native size, color processing, an old, handmade with remnants of gilding.
Talus paint layer in the bottom third, linseed oil, turpentine does not smell. There was preservation and strengthening of the paint layer.
Just state the facts but I am confident that everything can be counterfeited. : D

I will make and set up a decent picture of a tree with the back side.
Maybe artist otzavetsya .... : D: D: D: