Pinin Brambilla Barcilon Archive
Turin, Galleria Sabauda, Anton Van Dyck, Children of Charles I of England, Painting on canvas
Description Report, handwritten draft; phototypes (positive, negative).
consistency
Quantity 1|20|18|7
Type positive document(s) on paper up to 21x29 cm.negative document(s) on film up to 10x15 cm.slide(s) up to 6x6 cm.
Description restoration report 17 positive b/w 18x24 cm, 3 positive colour 18x24 cm. 1 negative on 10x12 cm film, 17 negative on 6x6 cm film. color slides 6x6 cm.
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APBB_CTRS_F207_28
Restoration report in synthetic form and photographic documentation relating to the intervention carried out on the painting The children of Charles I of England by Anton Van Dyck. The photographs illustrate and stages before, during and after the restoration of the work.
Facilitated description
The work "The sons of Charles I of England" by Anton Van Dyck, now known as "The eldest sons of Charles I of England", is a painting on canvas from 1635 preserved at the Savoy Gallery in Turin.
Restorer Pinin Brambilla Barcilon restored the work in 1989.
The pictorial surface was yellowed and the colors were altered.
During a previous restoration, the canvas had been lined (a reinforcement canvas had been applied to the back of a painting) and the margins had been widened.
There were flaky color lifts on the contours of the child's face with the dog, due to a tension defect in the canvas.
After cleaning (cleaning the surface of the artwork from dirt deposited over time) by Pinin Brambilla, the colour appeared brighter.
A window hidden under the blue sky and the child's blue robe became visible.
The restorer integrated (reconstructed the material or color of the missing parts) the color losses using watercolors.
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