21mc054-TE-2008_Turin, Galleria Sabauda, G. B. Crespi (called Cerano), San Francesco and San Carlo in front of the statue of the Madonna di San Celso, inv. 153, cat. 464

Facilitated description: 

 

St. Francis and St. Charles in front of the statue of Our Lady of St. Celsus is a painting on canvas.  
Giovanni Battista Crespi, known as Cerano, 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 of dust. 
They checked the state of preservation of paintings from previous restorations and paint. 
In the end they cleaned the frame of the dust. 

 

 

 

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 provided for the removal of dust deposits on the back and front of the painting by brush and vacuum cleaner. Subsequently, the revision of the altered retouching of the upper part of the painting with paint colors was carried out and the rebalancing of the inhomogeneity of the paint through the nebulization of gloss paint. A dusting was carried out on the frame by means of a vacuum cleaner.                           

 

Bibliography

M. B. Failla, Paper 3.7 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. 126-127.