21mc078-TE-2008_Turin, Galleria Sabauda, G. M. Crespi (Spagnoletto), San Giovanni Nepomuceno confesses the Queen of Bohemia, inv. 343

Facilitated description: 

 

St. John Nepomuk confesses the Queen of Bohemia is a painting on canvas. 
Giuseppe Maria Crespi, known as Spagnoletto, painted the painting in 1743.
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 and watercolor.

 

 

 

 

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. The painting was then dusted and disassembled from the frame. On the frame, however, the following operations have been done: dusting, solvent cleaning for the removal of altered surface layers, grouting and integration with watercolor and gold leaf. 

 

Bibliography

S. Villano, Sheet 9.14 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, pp. 215-216.