M087: The Liberation of St. Peter
(1629)
Biographical information
By:
TER BRUGGHEN, HendrickExecuted in:
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