The badly worm-eaten condition of the support of this painting had caused the partial destruction of the pictorial layer. Several attempts were made to preserve the original support, at least partially, but finally the painting had to be transferred to a new support. The new support consists of compressed cork, polyester, acrylic sheet, paper honeycomb, polyester and fiberglass, and finally a pinewood veneer. The layers were adhered with Araldite under cold vacuum. The reverse of the paint film was initially prepared with a coat of Tottin (with a fungicide), followed by a layer of kaolin and Tottin over fine gauze Japanese tissue paper was glued over the whole surface to reinforce the joins and to isolate the first layer (the adhesive used was Mowiol 50-98 in alcohol). After irregularities in the ground were smoothed, a cover of primed canvas was glued on with Mowiol and Tottin. Then the paint layer was adhered to the new support with PVA. -- AATA