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  • "Portrait of a jew woman", oil on canvas, 64 X 47 X 1,5 cm. Unknown author, XIX century. Hamburg Museum.

Conditions before treatment:

  • Cuts and rips of canvas

  • Gaps of support, preparation layer and painted layer

  • Craquelure and sign of the stretcher on the recto

  • Lost of tension and deformation of the flatness

  • Pieces of canvas glued on the wood stretcher

  • Cardboard panel glued on the back of the canvas

Preventive treatments:

  • Application of the Japanise paper on the front

  • Removal of the wood stretcher (with the loss of the canvas piece glued on the stretcher - see picture n. 1 below)

  • Removal of the cardboard panel and cleaning of the verso,  back of the canvas - see pictures above

Conservation treatments carried out:

  • Structural Consolidation of the gaps through the creationa nd application of new inlays of canvas and consolidation of the cuts with the application of a canvas "pulp" - see picture n.2 above

  • Lining with Beva film papers 

  • Selective Cleaning of the painted surface with gel (monitored through UV light observation during the process-see picture below)

  • Filling of the gaps with stucco (chalk and rabbit skin glue)

  • Application of the painting on a new stretcher

  • Pictorial retouching with "tratteggio" tecnique

  • Final application of protective varnish layer

Before and After

Pic.1                                                                                      Pic.2
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