21mc025-TE-2008_Turin, Galleria Sabauda, C. F. Beaumont, The Triumph of Peace, inv. 1052

Facilitated description: 

 

The Triumph of Peace is a painting made by the painter Claudio Francesco Beaumont in 1748.
Beaumont made this painting as evidence before painting the ceiling of the Armory of the Royal Palace of Turin. 
The painting is kept at the Galleria Sabauda in Turin. 
The restorers of the La Venaria Reale Conservation and Restoration Centre restored the painting in 2008. 
The restorers have dusted the frame (wooden structure that stands behind the painting and serves to support the painting). 
They cleaned the front of the painting and eliminated the yellowed paint. 
They kept the paintings of the old restorations as testimony. 
They filled the color gaps with putty (plaster and glue). 
Then they colored the stucco with watercolors and paint colors.
They painted the painting to protect it from the sun's rays and dust. 
In the end they cleaned the frame from the poor. 

 

 

 

 

Abstract of the intervention:

 

The work, before this restoration, was exhibited at the exhibition The Palace of Venaria and the Savoy. Art, Magnificence and History of a European Court at the Royal Palace of Venaria Reale (12 October 2007 - 30 March 2008). 

Restoration

The work on the painting began with the dusting of the back of the frame and the support. After a few small test runs, solvent gel cleaning was considered necessary due to yellowing of the paint and alteration of the retouching. The oily repaintings of the sky, although conspicuously altered in color, have not been removed for their value as historical testimony. However, in order to reduce the unpleasant visual impact of the altered repaintings, they were thinned and the removal operation limited only to the points where they were superimposed on the original pictorial film.
Painting was done with a brush and the gaps were compensated with stucco (plaster and rabbit glue), then chromatically integrated with watercolors and paint colors. Finally, the final spray painting was applied.

 

Frame
The frame has been dusted with soft brushes and light suction. Subsequently, a surface cleaning with ligroin was performed.

 

Bibliography

- C. Goria, Sheet 10.10 in The Palace of Venaria and the Savoy. Art, Magnificence and History of a European Court, E. Castelnuovo (eds.), Turin, Allemandi, 2007, pp. 186-187. 

- S. Villano, Sheet 9.12 in De Van Dyck in Bellotto. Splendeurs à la cour de Savoie, C. E. Spantigati, P. Astrua, A. M. Bava, S. Damiano, Torino, Allemandi, 2009, pp. 213-214.