diff --git a/Tests/test_pyarrow.py b/Tests/test_pyarrow.py
index 7a161f2ac..f282f2c00 100644
--- a/Tests/test_pyarrow.py
+++ b/Tests/test_pyarrow.py
@@ -112,8 +112,6 @@ def test_to_array(mode: str, dtype: pyarrow.DataType, mask: list[int] | None) ->
 
     reloaded = Image.fromarrow(arr, mode, img.size)
 
-    assert reloaded
-
     assert_image_equal(img, reloaded)
 
 
diff --git a/src/PIL/ImageFont.py b/src/PIL/ImageFont.py
index ec7c7cb08..06ea0359c 100644
--- a/src/PIL/ImageFont.py
+++ b/src/PIL/ImageFont.py
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ class ImageFont:
                 except Exception:
                     pass
                 else:
-                    if image and image.mode in ("1", "L"):
+                    if image.mode in ("1", "L"):
                         break
             else:
                 if image: