21mc070-TE-2008_Turin, Galleria Sabauda, G. Van Wittel, Il Colosseo, inv. 883

Facilitated description: 

 

The Colosseum is a painting on canvas. 
Gaspar Van Wittel painted the painting in 1711.
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 of dust. 
They cleaned the frame.  
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 and watercolors.

 

 

 

 

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 then carried out on the painting, while on the frame a cleaning was carried out, stopping and consolidating the scales raised with fish glue, plastering and integration with bolus, gold leaf and watercolor.

 

Bibliography

S. Villano, Sheet 9.7 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. 207.