M104: Claes Duyst van Voorhout

Object information

Artist HALS, Frans Executed in Haarlem Support canvas Medium oil Dimensions (cm) 80.70 × 66.00 Signed UNCLEAR Museum Metropolitan Museum of Art [inv.nr: 49.7.33] RKD RKD link

Data

Overview
Sample data

Description:

Preparatory layers 2 (G-P) 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 2

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.