M104: Claes Duyst van Voorhout

(c.1638)

Biographical information

By:

HALS, Frans

Executed in:

Haarlem

Support:

canvas

Medium:

oil

Dimensions (cm):

80.70 x 66.00

Signed?

UNCLEAR

Museum:

Metropolitan Museum of Art [inv.nr: 49.7.33]

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Data

Overview
Sample data

Description:

Preparatory layers:

2 (G-P)

Free-text description:

1. Greyish brown layer 2. Brownish pink layer

Paint layers (oil)

canvas

Layer information:

(Counting from the support up towards the paint layers)

Layer 2:

Colour: Pink

Composition: Lead white, very little umber, red and brown ochre

Layer 1:

Colour: Grey

Composition: Lead white, chalk, umber, little bone black

Data information:

Reliability-rating:

Researchers:

Karin Groen and Ella Hendriks

Source:

Groen, Karin, and Ella Hendriks. “Frans Hals: A Technical Examination.” In Frans Hals, 109–27. Munich: Prestel-Verlag, 1989.