25mc40-TE-2014_Turin, Galleria Sabauda, G. M. Graneri, La Questua del Vino, inv. 779

Facilitated description: 

 

The begging of wine is a painting on canvas made by the painter Giovanni Michele Graneri.
The painting depicts a cleric asking for wine in a village as an offering.
The painting is kept at the Galleria Sabauda in Turin. 
The La Venaria Reale Conservation and Restoration Centre restored the painting and frame in 2014. 
The restorers stopped the colored parts of the painting that were peeling off. 
Then they cleaned the frame.
They filled the holes in the wood with stucco (plaster and glue). 
They filled the color gaps of the frame with watercolors. 

 

 

 

 

Abstract of the intervention:

 

Restoration

The intervention on the painting The begging of wine of Graneri has previewed consolidations of the decoese parts. On the frame were performed stops, cleanings, grouting of the gaps and pictorial retouching.