Cod. 048

Reproduction of a Neoclassical picture frame gilt and lacquered on wood. It’s a late 18th-century French style model

Width cm 6

Neoclassical Picture Frame

Reproduction of a French Neoclassical Picture Frame gilt and lacquered on wood. This late 18th-century model is available in any size. Therefore, you can fit it with any painting.

Neoclassical picture frame properties

This reproduction of a Neoclassical picture frame is made with ayous and tulipwood combined together. We use ayous for the front side and tulipwood for the backside of the frame. As a result, we obtain the maximum strength with the minimum weight.

You can customize the rabbet width as you prefer. For instance, if you need to cover a bigger part of the painting you can ask to enlarge it. The rabbet depth instead, depends on the thickness of the painting. In most of our models, it is something between 1.5 to 4 cm. Sometimes even deeper due to structural reasons or under request.

Section width cm 6
Rabbet cm 1

360° presentation

Click on the video below to see this replica frame with a 360° overview.

Neoclassical frame decorations

Decorations are in wood pulp. We carve them when they’re dry, realizing the shape form of a typical Neoclassical picture frame. The use of wood pulp, which is 99% composed of wood and 1% of solvent, gives us the chance to contain the price at a very low level. The entire process is handmade, and you can watch a video related to it by following this link to our Youtube Channel: https://youtu.be/fTQHIH9dRC8

Patina (aging process)

“Patina” is an Italian word that refers to how dark and old look to be the frame. Apart from dark gold, the age of a frame is determined by a few cracks and tiny broken parts all around the sides. For this purpose, our gilder hits its surfaces with some stones.

The wormholes are also simulated, and you will be able to notice them by analyzing deeply the pictures above. The presence of wormholes does not indicate activity within or a recent flight of beetles. Remember that they were faked by us to specifically age this French Neoclassical picture frame reproduction.

See below a video showing all the steps of the Patina.