M025: Portrait of a Man with a Skull
(c.1611)
Biographical information
By:
HALS, FransExecuted in:
Support:
panel
Medium:
oil
Dimensions (cm):
94.00 x 72.50
Signed?
NO
Museum:
Barber Institute of Fine Arts [inv.nr: 38.6]
Museum-link
RKD-link
Data
Description:
Preparatory layers:
1 (G)
Free-text description:
1. Grey ground
Paint layers (oil)
panel
Layer information:
(Counting from the support up towards the paint layers)
Layer 1:
Colour: Grey
Composition: Lead white, a little red ochre, umber, coarse charcoal black
Data information:
Reliability-rating:
2
Analytical Techniques:
Sampled?
YES
Researchers:
Karin Groen and Ella Hendriks
Source:
Groen, Karin, and Ella Hendriks. “Frans Hals: A Technical Examination.” In Frans Hals, 109–27. Munich: Prestel-Verlag, 1989.