M087: The Liberation of St. Peter

(1629)

Biographical information


By:
TER BRUGGHEN, Hendrick

Executed in:

Utrecht


Support:

canvas


Medium:

oil


Dimensions (cm):

152.00 x 210.00


Signed?

UNCLEAR



Museum:

State Museum of Schwerin [inv.nr: G 913]


RKD-link


Data


Description:


Preparatory layers:

2 (LR-LBr)


Free-text description:

1. Orange-red layer 2. Light brown grey layer


Paint layers (oil)

canvas


Layer information:

(Counting from the support up towards the paint layers)


Layer 2:

Colour: Light brown

Composition: Brown ochre, charcoal black, lead white, chalk


Layer 1:

Colour: Light red

Composition: Red ochre, chalk, little lead white


Data information:


Reliability-rating:

1


Source:

Castro, Silvia, Anna Bonewitz, Ursula Baumer, Patrick Dietemann, Heike Stege, Irene Fiedler, Cornelia Tilenschi, and Jörg Klaas. “Examinations of Two 17th Century Dutch Paintings with Respect to Colour Alteration and the Greyish Appearance of the Paint Layers.” Zeitschrift Für Kunsttechnologie Und Konservierung 23 (2009): 177–95. Sent by Gero Seelig, see especially p. 8 Table 1 for SEM-EDX of ground, and p. 14 for images of cross-sections



Sample information:


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