M036: The Adoration of the Magi

(1619)

Biographical information

By:

TER BRUGGHEN, Hendrick

Executed in:

Utrecht

Support:

canvas

Medium:

oil

Dimensions (cm):

132.50 x 160.50

Signed?

YES

Museum:

Rijksmuseum [inv.nr: SK-A-4188]

Data

Overview
Sample data

Description:

Preparatory layers:

2 (LR-LBr)

Free-text description:

1. Orange-red layer of red iron oxide with chalk 2. Light brown layer with some black

Paint layers (oil)

canvas

Layer information:

(Counting from the support up towards the paint layers)

Layer 2:

Colour: Light brown

Composition: Brown and black pigments

Layer 1:

Colour: Light red

Composition: Red iron oxide with chalk

Data information:

Reliability-rating:

Analytical Techniques:

Sampled?

YES

Microscopy?

YES

Researchers:

Karin Groen, Moorea Hall-Aquitania

Source:

Bikker, Jonathan, Yvette Bruijnen, and Gerdien Wuestman, eds. Dutch Paintings of the Seventeenth Century in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam: Volume 1 - Artists Born between 1570 and 1600. Amsterdam: Rijksmuseum; Nieuw Amsterdam, 2007.