M036: The Adoration of the Magi

Object information

Artist TER BRUGGHEN, Hendrick Executed in Utrecht Support canvas Medium oil Dimensions (cm) 132.50 × 160.50 Signed YES Museum Rijksmuseum [inv.nr: SK-A-4188] Museum link View on museum site RKD RKD link

Data

Overview
Sample data

Description:

Preparatory layers 2 (LR-LBr) 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 2

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.

Sample information:

Sample 1 SK-A-4188-01 Sample location Rijksmuseum (PSD)