25mc42-TE-2014_Turin, Galleria Sabauda, F. Cairo, The Pharaoh's daughter welcomes Moses saved from the waters, inv. 822

Facilitated description:

 

The Pharaoh's daughter is a painting on canvas. 
The painting depicts a woman taking little Moses to Pharaoh's daughter. 
The painter Francesco Cairo painted the painting in 1645. 
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 stopped the parts of color that were peeling off. 
Then they cleaned the frame.
They filled the holes of the frame with stucco (plaster and glue layer). 

 

 

 

 

Abstract of the intervention:

 

Restoration

The intervention on the painting Pharaoh's daughter receives Moses rescued from the waters Cairo has provided consolidations at the level of the pictorial decoration and the frame and plastering of the gaps on the frame. The study of the painting technique and the composition of the painting have been deepened through a campaign of multispectral investigations.