21mc067-TE-2008_Turin, Galleria Sabauda, P. F. Mola (attr.), Landscape with Ida and Linceo, inv. 112

Facilitated description: 

 

Landscape with Ida and Lynx is a painting on canvas. 
Pier Francesco Mola painted the painting in 1655-1660.
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 wooden gaps of the frame with stucco (plaster and glue layer). 
In the end they filled the lacks of gilding with gold in sheets. 

 

 

 

 

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 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. A dusting was carried out on the painting, while a cleaning, plastering and bolus and gold leaf integration were carried out on the frame. Finally, a layer of felt was applied in the thickness.

 

Bibliography

S. Villano, Tab 8.3 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. 192.