21mc055-TE-2008_Turin, Galleria Sabauda, F. Cairo, Christ in the Garden of Olives, inv. 106, cat. 455

Facilitated description: 

 

Christ in the Garden of Olives is a painting on canvas.  
Francis of Cairo 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 involved the disassembly of the frame, the dusting and the revision of the painting of the table. On the frame was carried out the dusting, cleaning and integration with watercolor and gold leaf of the abraded parts.

 

Bibliography

C. Goria, Sheet 3.12 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, p. 131.