25mc17-TA-2014_Turin, Galleria Sabauda, L. di Credi, Portrait of a young man, inv. 188

Facilitated description:

 

Portrait of a young man is a painting on a wooden table. 
The painting depicts the bust of a young man in a dark suit with a red scarf. In the background a country landscape. 
The painter Lorenzo di Credi painted the painting at the end of 1400. 
The La Venaria Reale Conservation and Restoration Centre restored the painting in 2014. 
The restorers cleaned the painting of dust. 
They glued the parts of color that were peeling off. 
They filled the color gaps with putty (plaster and glue layer). 
They colored the putty. 
Then they cleaned the frame and reinforced the parts that were coming off.
In the end they put a product to protect the painting and the frame from the sun's rays and dust. 

 

 

 

 

Abstract of the intervention:

 

Restoration

The intervention on the painting was performed both at the level of the pictorial film and the frame, so the following operations were done: consolidations of the pictorial film, surface cleaning, filling of gaps, retouching and painting.