21mc048-TE-2008_Turin, Galleria Sabauda, G. Lanfranco, Rebecca e Elizer al pozzo, inv. 122, cat. 517

Facilitated description: 

 

Rebecca and Elizer at the Well is a painting on canvas. 
Giovanni Lanfranco painted the painting in the early 1600s.
The painting is kept at the Galleria Sabauda in Turin. 
The La Venaria Reale Conservation and Restoration Centre did a maintenance on the painting in 2008 for an exhibition. 
After the intervention, the painting was exhibited at an exhibition in Brussels. 
The restorers cleaned the painting and the frame from dust. 
They filled the wooden gaps of the frame with stucco (plaster and glue layer). 
They filled the lacks of gilding with gold in sheets. 

 

 

 

 

Abstract of the intervention: 

 

Maintenance 

The intervention on the painting of the Galleria Sabauda in Turin is part of the maintenance carried out in view of the exhibition De Van Dyck in Bellotto. Splendeurs à la cour de Savoie in Brussels (Palais des Beaux-Arts, 20 February - 24 May 2009).
On the painting the dust deposits were removed by brush and vacuum cleaner, while on the frame a chemical cleaning was carried out. Subsequently, the gaps were stuccoed and gilding with gold leaf was integrated.

 

Bibliography

C. Goria, Sheet 6.4 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. 161-162.