25mc03-AL-2014_Turin, Galleria Sabauda, J. Van Ruisdael, Country Landscape, inv. 60 - frame

Facilitated description:

 

The frame of the painting intolaid Country Landscape is a frame of gilded wood. 
The frame and the painting are kept at the Galleria Sabauda in Turin. 
The La Venaria Reale Conservation and Restoration Centre restored the frame in 2014. 
The restorers cleaned the frame of the dust. 
They filled the missing wooden parts with putty (plaster and glue). 
In the end they put on the frame a product against insects that eat wood. 

 

 

 

 

Abstract of the intervention:

 

Restoration

The intervention involved the restoration of the only frame on which consolidation operations were carried out, a surface cleaning, retouching, the application of permethrin and the final painting.