21mc050-TA-2008_Turin, Galleria Sabauda, G. Ferrari, San Pietro e un devoto, inv. 244, cat. 46

Facilitated description: 

 

St. Peter and a Devotee is a painting on wooden board. 
The painter Gaudenzio Ferrari painted the painting in the early 1500s.  
The painting is kept at the Galleria Sabauda in Turin. 
This painting and the painting "St. John the Baptist" are part of a polyptych (composed of several paintings).
The paintings of the polyptych are now scattered in several museums.
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 checked the state of conservation of the paintings made during the restorations of the past.
They cleaned the frame of the dust. 
They filled the wooden gaps with stucco (plaster and glue layer). 
They filled the missing color parts of the frame.

 

 

 

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).
The maintenance involved the revision of the retouching with paint colors. Dusting, consolidation, filling of gaps and chromatic reintegration were carried out on the frame.

 

Bibliography

S. Baiocco, Sheet 2.8 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. 105-106.