M185: The slaughtered ox

(1655)

Biographical information

By:

REMBRANDT

Executed in:

Amsterdam

Support:

panel

Medium:

oil

Dimensions (cm):

None x None

Signed?

UNCLEAR

Museum:

Unknown [inv.nr: 457]

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Data

Overview
Sample data

Description:

Preparatory layers:

2 (LY-LBr)

Free-text description:

1. Chalk 2. Brownish

Paint layers (oil)

panel

Layer information:

(Counting from the support up towards the paint layers)

Layer 2:

Colour: Light brown

Composition: Brownish

Layer 1:

Colour: Light yellow

Composition: Calcium carbonate (chalk)

Data information:

Reliability-rating:

Researchers:

Lab Musees de France, Karin Groen

Source:

Groen, Karin M. “Grounds in Rembrandt’s Workshop and in Paintings by His Contemporaries.” In A Corpus of Rembrandt Paintings, IV:318–34. Dordrecht: Springer, 2005.