M087: The Liberation of St. Peter

Object information

Artist TER BRUGGHEN, Hendrick Executed in Utrecht Support canvas Medium oil Dimensions (cm) 152.00 × 210.00 Signed UNCLEAR Museum State Museum of Schwerin [inv.nr: G 913] RKD RKD link

Data

Description:

Preparatory layers 2 (LR-LBr) 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 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