M082: Democritus
(1628)
Biographical information
By:
TER BRUGGHEN, HendrickExecuted in:
Support:
canvas
Medium:
oil
Dimensions (cm):
85.70 x 70.00
Signed?
UNCLEAR
Museum:
Rijksmuseum [inv.nr: SK-A-2783]
RKD-link
Data
Description:
Preparatory layers:
1 (R)
Free-text description:
"The colour of the ground, visible in the background, is red"
Paint layers (oil)
canvas
Layer information:
(Counting from the support up towards the paint layers)
Layer 1:
Colour: Red
Composition:
Data information:
Reliability-rating:
4
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.