diff --git a/Tests/test_pyarrow.py b/Tests/test_pyarrow.py
index 7a161f2ac12..f282f2c0059 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 ec7c7cb0813..06ea0359c45 100644
--- a/src/PIL/ImageFont.py
+++ b/src/PIL/ImageFont.py
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ def _load_pilfont(self, filename: str) -> None:
                 except Exception:
                     pass
                 else:
-                    if image and image.mode in ("1", "L"):
+                    if image.mode in ("1", "L"):
                         break
             else:
                 if image: