21mc057-TE-2008_Turin, Galleria Sabauda, C. Vignon, St. Paul the Apostle, inv. 139, cat. 554

Facilitated description: 

 

St. Paul the Apostle is a painting on canvas.  
Claude Vignon 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 checked the state of preservation of the paint (layer over the paint). 
In the end they filled the lacks of gilding of the frame with watercolors and gold 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).
Maintenance on the canvas involved dusting and overhauling the painting. On the frame, after dusting and cleaning, we proceeded to the reintegration with watercolors and with leaf now in the abraded parts.                      

 

Bibliography

C. Goria, Tab 4.4 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. 137-138.