25mc46-TE-2014_Turin, Galleria Sabauda, C. F. Beaumont, Triumph of Venus and Love, inv. 59

Facilitated description:

 

The Triumph of Venus and Love is a painting on canvas by the painter Claudio Francesco Beaumont.
The painting represents the goddess Venus on the right with the god Love in her arms, sitting in the clouds. 
The painting is a sketch (a model made by the artist before making the painting on the wall of the Royal Armory of Turin). 
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 cleaned the painting of dust.
They eliminated the yellowed paint (last layer of the painting above the painting).
They filled the missing color parts with a layer of putty (plaster and glue). 
They painted the stucco with watercolors making small dashes to make recognizable the parts added with the restoration. 
The restorers painted the painting to protect it from the sun's rays and dust. 
Then they cleaned the frame and rebuilt some missing parts. 
They filled the wooden gaps with stucco (plaster and glue). 
In the end they painted the stucco with watercolors.

 

 

 

 

Abstract of the intervention:

 

The painting 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. In the upper area of the painting there is a curvilinear sign, probably a first setting of the sketch in a circular format for the execution of the fresco made at the Beaumont Gallery of the Royal Armory of Turin.

Restoration

The intervention began with the removal of dust deposits from the frame, support and frame with micro-aspirators followed by a chemical cleaning to eliminate the altered paint. Subsequently, a revision of the restoration stucco was made and the small deficiencies of pictorial film in imitation of the surface were stuccoed. The new compensations have been integrated in hatch with watercolor colors and varnish veils. Finally, a protective paint was sprayed. 
On the frame were reconstructed the lack of wooden structure with epoxy resin and were consolidated with adhesive the small lifts of preparation and gilding. Finally, a chemical cleaning and grouting of the gaps were carried out, then chromatically reintegrated with watercolor colors and micacea powder in shellac.