M049: Christ Among the Doctors
(1622)
Biographical information
By:
VAN BABUREN, DirckExecuted in:
Support:
canvas
Medium:
oil
Dimensions (cm):
188.00 x 208.00
Signed?
YES
Museum:
Nasjonalmuseet Oslo [inv.nr: NG.M.00109]
Museum-link
RKD-link
Data
Description:
Preparatory layers:
2 (R-G)
Free-text description:
1. Red ground in two applications 2. Thin grey priming
Paint layers (oil)
canvas
Layer information:
(Counting from the support up towards the paint layers)
Layer 2:
Colour: Grey
Composition: Lead white, iron, manganese (umber)
Layer 1:
Colour: Red
Composition: Iron and aluminium silicates (clay material), iron oxide red, lead-containing fluorescent lumps (lead soaps?), red lead
Data information:
Reliability-rating:
1
Source:
Plahter, Leif Einar, and Unn Simonsen Plahter. “The Young Christ among the Doctors by Teodoer van Baburen. Technique and Condition of a Dutch Seventeenth Century Painting on Canvas.” In Conservare Necesse Est, 42–67. Oslo: IIC Nordic Group, 1999. Sent by Cynthia Osiecki