M025: Portrait of a Man with a Skull

(c.1611)

Portrait of a Man with a Skull

Object information

Artist HALS, Frans Executed in Haarlem Support panel Medium oil Dimensions (cm) 94.00 × 72.50 Signed NO Museum Barber Institute of Fine Arts [inv.nr: 38.6] Museum link View on museum site RKD RKD link

Data


Description:

Preparatory layers 1 (G) 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 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.


Sample information:

No sample images available.