M203: Bellona

(1633)

Biographical information

By:

REMBRANDT

Executed in:

Amsterdam

Support:

canvas

Medium:

oil

Dimensions (cm):

None x None

Signed?

UNCLEAR

Museum:

Unknown [inv.nr: 467]

Data

Overview
Sample data

Description:

Preparatory layers:

2 (R-G)

Free-text description:

1. Red earth, chalk, quartz 2. Lead white little ochre/umber, lamp black

Paint layers (oil)

canvas

Layer information:

(Counting from the support up towards the paint layers)

Layer 2:

Colour: Grey

Composition: Lead white,ochre/umber, lamp black

Layer 1:

Colour: Red

Composition: Red earth, chalk, quartz

Data information:

Reliability-rating:

Researchers:

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.