The Conservation of a Painting. Case Study: Cornel Minişan, “Landscape from Caransebeş” (Oil on Canvas, 20th Century)

Abstract

This paper presents a case study of the conservation of an oil painting produced by the Romanian inter-war painter Cornel Minisan in the 1930s One of the main problems of the art-work for which I had to find an appropriate solution, was the deformation of the painting's support. The painting on canvas was marouflaged in the past on a pressboard. The inapropriately executed intervention has led to the formation of air pockets between the canvas and the pressboard Another important issue in the conservation process was the cleaning of the art-work. Its entire surface was covered by a thick layer of adherent dirt In addition to the intervention on the painting's support and the cleaning, the conservation work undertaken entailed other interventions as well, all aimed at bringing the painting in a stable state of conservation and at the same time restoring its intended, aesthetically appropriate form.