1-TE-2006_Venaria Reale, Reggia di Venaria, J. Miel, Bear Hunt, inv. D 735 292 (property Hunting Lodge Stupinigi)

Facilitated description: 

 

Bear Hunt is a painting on canvas.
The painting depicts a hunting scene.
The painter Jan Miel painted the painting in 1659.
The painting is kept in Diana's room of the Reggia di Venaria.
The Conservation and Restoration Center "La Venaria Reale" restored the painting in 2006-2007 for the reopening of the Reggia di Venaria.
The restorers dusted the painting and the frame (wooden structure behind the painting to support the painting) to remove the dust.
They painted the ruined parts of the sky with paint.
In the end they put a varnish to protect the painting from the sun's rays and dust.

 

 

 

Abstract of the intervention:

 

The canvas Bear hunting by Jan Miel was restored on the occasion of the reopening of the Reggia di Venaria and the exhibition in its original location in the Hall of Diana. The painting, part of a series of 10 works with a hunting theme, has been affected by several movements during its conservative history and has come to the Palace from the Civic Museum of Ancient Art of Turin - Palazzo Madama, where it was in temporary storage from the Hunting Palace of Stupinigi (Mauritian Order Foundation). The restoration was preceded by ultraviolet analysis to deepen the study of the pictorial surface and identify the presence of previous interventions. 

 

Intervention

The maintenance work began with dusting, surface cleaning of the frame and a general overhaul. Subsequently, some areas of the sky were reintegrated with paint colors and a final protective paint was sprayed.

 

Bibliography

- D. Zanardo, Tabs 8.1-8.10 in The Royal Palace of Venaria Reale and the Savoy. Art, magnificence and history of a European court, edited by E. Castelnuovo, catalogue of the exhibition (Reggia di Venaria, 12 October 2007 - 30 March 2008), pp. 143-155;
Of the hunts I give thee the high empire: restorations for Diana's room at the Venaria Reale, in ‘Archivio 2’, edited by C. E. Spantigati, Nardini Editore, Florence, 2008.