21mc064-TE-2008_Turin, Galleria Sabauda, A. Verrocchi (attr.), Fruit, inv. 761, cat. 529

Facilitated description: 

 

Fruit is a painting on canvas made 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. 
They filled the small color gaps with paint colors.
They filled the wooden gaps of the frame with stucco (plaster and glue layer).
They filled in the gilding deficiencies of the frame and fixed the bottom part.

 

 

 

 

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). In the catalogue of the exhibition the painting is compared to the production of Filippo Lauri. 
The aim of the intervention was to restore the conditions of functionality and legibility of the painting in the optics of minimal invasiveness and in compliance with the historical testimonies present on the work. On the painting were carried out the removal of dust deposits on the back and front of the painting by brush and vacuum cleaner and the chromatic reintegration with paint colors of small gaps and abrasions along the edges of the painting. On the frame were made a dusting, plastering with plaster and glue and chromatic reintegration. Finally, the frame of the painting was mounted with the addition of a wooden slat in correspondence with the lower ruler.

 

Bibliography

S. Piretta, Sheet 7.5 in De Van Dyck in Bellotto. Splendeurs à la cour de Savoie, C. E. Spantigati, P. Astrua, A. M. Bava, S. Damiano, Torino, Allemandi, 2009, p. 179-180.