15mc02-TE-2020_Turin, Museo Civico d’Arte Antica – Palazzo Madama, G. Rigaud, Portrait of Simon Boucheron, inv. 28/D

Facilitated description: 

 

The portrait of Simon Boucheron is a painting made by Gaspard Rigaud after 1650.
The painting is kept at the Civic Museum of Ancient Art in Turin (Palazzo Madama).
The La Venaria Reale Conservation and Restoration Centre restored the painting in 2020.
The restorers dismantled the painting from the frame. They cleaned the painting of dust.
They repainted the parts of painting made in a previous restoration.
They painted the painting to protect it from the sun's rays and dust.
They cleaned it has frame and filled the wooden mancaze with stucco (plaster and glue layer).

 

 

 

Abstract of the intervention: 

 

Maintenance

The extraordinary maintenance work on the painting was carried out on the occasion of the exhibition APrecious rgenti. The work of the Piedmontese silversmiths in the collections of Palazzo Madama (Palazzo Madama, 2 July to 15 November 2020). 
The painting was released from the frame and was cleaned from the deposits, but preserving the protective layers applied in the previous restoration. The reintegrations carried out in the previous intervention, no longer in chromatic agreement with the surrounding surface, were balanced and a protective varnish was applied at the completion of the intervention.

 

Frame
Also on the frame, in addition to the biocidal treatment, a cleaning of the deposits with different degrees of consistency has been carried out. On the structure the disconnections have been realigned as far as possible and in the presence of minimal voids groutings have been carried out, then chromatically integrated with the surrounding surface. Finally, the painting and the frame were reassembled and bound by aluminum springs