21mc062-TE-2008_Turin, Galleria Sabauda, G. Reni, San Giovanni Battista nel deserto, inv. 149, cat. 505

Facilitated description: 

 

St. John the Baptist in the Desert is a painting on canvas.  
Guido Reni 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. 
The golden frame had a small lack. The restorers used the gold leaf to fill the lack of gilding on the frame.

 

 

 

 

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).
The aim of the intervention was to restore the condition of functionality and readability of the painting with a view to minimal invasiveness and in compliance with the historical evidence on the work. It was then carried out a cleaning of the painting and the frame. In addition, at the level of the frame, the cracks were repaired with grouting and a gold leaf integration was carried out.

 

Bibliography

C. Goria, Tab 6.5 in De Van Dyck in Bellotto. Splendeurs à la cour de Savoie, C. E. Spantigati, P. Astrua, A. M. Bava, S. Damiano, Turin, Allemandi, 2009, p. 162-164.