Prior to treatments, the two large canvas paintings measuring 3m in length and over 2m in width, exhibited various tears as well as canvas lacunae and deformations. The two canvas paintings were strip-lined, in which pieces of new canvas were attached to the original tacking margins, thus allowing the re-stretching of the canvases onto newly manufactured stretcher frames. Other treatments involved the thinning down of the oxidised and yellowed varnish layer, and integration of losses in the preparation and paint layers.