25mc33-TE-2014_Turin, Galleria Sabauda, P. D. Olivero, Scena campestre, inv. 519

Facilitated description:

 

Country Scene is a painting on canvas. 
The painting depicts scenes of everyday life in a country village. 
The painter Pietro Domenico Olivero painted the painting between 1705-1710. 
The La Venaria Reale Conservation and Restoration Centre restored the painting in 2014. 
The restorers cleaned the painting from dust, yellowed paint and old restoration paintings. 
They have eliminated the plastering (plaster and glue that serves to fill the color gaps) of the old restoration because they were not well preserved.
The restorers have made new grouting.
They painted the plastering with watercolor. 
They painted the painting to protect it from the sun's rays and dust. 
After the restorers cleaned the frame. 
They put a product against insects that eat wood. 
They glued the parts of wood that were coming off. 
They filled the holes in the wood with stucco (plaster and glue). 
They eventually put an adhesive strip between the painting and the frame to space them out. 

 

 

 

 

Abstract of the intervention: 

 

The canvas was the subject of conservation and restoration work on the occasion of the installation of the Galleria Sabauda at the new headquarters in the Manica Nuova of the Palazzo Reale in Turin (2014). The restoration was accompanied by a multispectral diagnostic campaign and photographic documentation to investigate some of the technical characteristics of the work.

Restoration

The intervention on the canvas began with the removal of atmospheric particulate deposits, the thinning of yellowed paint and the removal of altered touch-ups. The plastering of the previous restorations was then removed, replaced by new plastering, and localized stops were made on the edges. Finally, the gaps were reintegrated with undertone watercolor bases, then tuned with paint colors and a protective varnish was applied. 
The frame has been treated with anti-moth and cleaned from atmospheric deposits. Adhesion defects were stopped and gaps grouted and aesthetically replenished. Finally, the support was coated with a film of adhesive Teflon to prevent abrasion of the painting surface.