22-mc03-TE-2012_Moncalieri, Castello, F. Petiti, Landscape, inv. 529 S.M.

Facilitated description:

 

Landscape is a painting on canvas. 
The painter Filiberto Petiti painted the painting during the 1900s. 
The painting depicts a small river with trees. 
The painting is kept at the Castle of Moncalieri. 
The La Venaria Reale Conservation and Restoration Centre restored the painting in 2012. 
Scientists did scientific analysis to study how the painting was made. 
The restorers cleaned the frame (wooden structure that stands behind the painting and serves and supports the painting). 
They cleaned up behind the painting. 
They eliminated the folds of the canvas and reinforced the damaged parts of the canvas.
After the restorers cleaned the front part of the painting. 
They filled the color gaps with putty (plaster and glue layer). 
They painted the putty with paint colors. 
In the end they cleaned the frame and rebuilt some missing parts. 

 

 

 

 

Abstract of the intervention: 

 

Restoration

The restoration was preceded by a multispectral analysis campaign in order to obtain information on the state of conservation and the execution technique of the work. It was first made a series of shots in ultraviolet fluorescence and then an infrared detection and its processing in false color. 

The intervention provided for the maintenance of the original frame, subjected to cleaning and consolidation with adhesive of the upper right corner.
The cleaning of the textile support was carried out in two stages: with micro-aspirator and soft bristle brush for inconsistent dust deposits and with sponges for deposits in the interstices of the fabric reinforcement. The deformations were then smoothed out, the back was consolidated and the canvas was re-tensioned on the frame. 
On the resurfacing front, the chemical cleaning of the pictorial film from the deposits, the resolution of the de-adhesion phenomena and the plastering of the pictorial film gaps, then integrated with paint colors. Finally, after the cleaning of the frame, the missing parts of the pearl row decoration in the upper ruler were reconstructed with heraldry and integrated in camouflage.