21mc056-TE-2008_Turin, Galleria Sabauda, O. Gentileschi, Annunciation, inv. 161, cat. 469

Facilitated description: 

 

The Annunciation is a painting on canvas.  
Orazio Gentileschi 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. 
 

 

 

 

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 deposits of organic substances on the canvas and on the frame with the help of microaspirator and down jacket.

 

Bibliography

C. Goria, Sheet 4.8 in De Van Dyck in Bellotto. Splendeurs à la cour de Savoie, C. E. Spantigati, P. Astrua, A. M. Bava, S. Damiano, Turin, Allemandi, 2009, p. 142.