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•  Info Drawing on paper created in 1794 by Jean-Jacques Lequeu (1757-1826) - uploaded by Subsidiary account - nominated by Basile Morin -- Basile Morin (talk) 04:48, 15 May 2023 (UTC)
•  Support 229 years old. Quite daring for the time -- Basile Morin (talk) 04:48, 15 May 2023 (UTC)
•  Support Lovely paper painting! --SHB2000 (talk) 06:48, 15 May 2023 (UTC)
•  Support It looks like this was done on lined paper. The work might benefit from a very restrained and delicate restoration, but I'd rather they leave it alone. A digital restoration could be good, though. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 07:35, 15 May 2023 (UTC)

• Thanks for your review. We share the same opinion here. The state of conservation is generally excellent, considering the age of the document. We could handle a restoration using Photoshop, but in this case I don't want to falsify original details, given that a graphic work of art always contains imperfections due to the limitation of manual skills, the materials, the textures, etc. Yes, the paper is lined, and there are authentic inscriptions written at the bottom. Maybe a trace of brown pad over "l'an 2"? At full resolution a few spots are darker and lighter, but they don't look like scratches, so perhaps not to be removed. Even the turquoise tiny spots on the upper lip and under the eye, although obviously unwanted, may be aged 229 years. There is also a dark mark over the hand, which looks like a superficial horizontal folding line, and another one even less visible above. But the paper doesn't seem folded, thus I wonder if these marks could be preliminary lines of construction by the artist (insufficiently covered by the wash above), or an irregularity of the original paper, or something else of historical significance. The physical work is missing, thus as long as we don't know the origin of these peculiarities, I would find the enterprise of arranging the drawing to make it potentially superior to what it probably was in 1794 quite perilous. I am personally satisfied by the version offered -- Basile Morin (talk) 01:48, 16 May 2023 (UTC)

• There's no question that some of what we are seeing is guide lines the artist drew. If we don't have the original work, I agree that probably no digital restoration should be done. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 02:39, 16 May 2023 (UTC)

  I mean, there are a few dust spots. Adam Cuerden (talk) 17:03, 20 May 2023 (UTC)

•  Support--Peulle (talk) 07:42, 15 May 2023 (UTC)
•  Support -- Radomianin (talk) 08:34, 15 May 2023 (UTC)
•  Support --UnpetitproleX (Talk) 10:48, 15 May 2023 (UTC)
•  Support -- Ivar (talk) 14:33, 15 May 2023 (UTC)
•  Comment Normally these old prints etc. are restored for FPC. Charlesjsharp (talk) 16:02, 15 May 2023 (UTC)

• Not always. Example this drawing is the exact copy of the original -- Basile Morin (talk) 01:48, 16 May 2023 (UTC)

•  Support -- IamMM (talk) 03:03, 16 May 2023 (UTC)
•  Support -- Cbrescia (talk) 23:07, 17 May 2023 (UTC)
•  Support --Wieggy (talk) 07:11, 18 May 2023 (UTC)
•  Support --LexKurochkin (talk) 07:50, 18 May 2023 (UTC)

Confirmed results:

Result: 11 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /--SHB2000 (talk) 00:48, 21 May 2023 (UTC)

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