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The descendants of Charles Pelham move Neptune and Triton to their country house, Brocklesby Park, Lincolnshire.
Louvre restorer Eugène Denizard performs watercolour retouches on areas of the paint layer of the Mona Lisa disturbed by the crack in the panel. He also retouches the edges of the picture with varnish, to mask areas that were covered initially by an older frame.
The Comtesse de Béhague gives the Mona Lisa its current frame, a Renaissance-era work consistent with the portrait's historical period.
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