25mc04-TA-2014_Turin, Galleria Sabauda, N. E. Pickenoy, Portrait of a woman, inv. 68

Facilitated description:

 

The portrait of a woman is a painting on a table. 
The painter Nicolaes Eliasz Pickenoy painted the painting in 1625. 
The painting is kept at the Galleria Sabauda in Turin. 
The La Venaria Reale Conservation and Restoration Centre restored the painting in 2014. 
The restorers reinforced the fragile parts of the wooden board. 
After they cleaned the frame from dust with brushes. 
They reinforced the golden parts that were coming off.
In the end, they filled the small wooden gaps with plaster and glue. 
They painted the parts without gilding with watercolors.

 

 

 

 

Abstract of the intervention:

 

Restoration

A general structural and consolidation review was carried out on the work. On the frame were removed the deposits of dust with soft bristle brushes and micro aspirator both from the front and from the back and the scales of prepearation and gilding were consolidated with punctual injections of adhesive. Finally, the small gaps of preparation and gilding were filled with Bologna chalk and rabbit glue and replenished with watercolor colors.