M223: Still life with dead peacocks
(c.1639)
Biographical information
By:
REMBRANDTExecuted in:
Support:
canvas
Medium:
oil
Dimensions (cm):
145.00 x 135.50
Signed?
YES
Museum:
Rijksmuseum [inv.nr: SK-A-3981]
Museum-link
RKD-link
Data
Description:
Preparatory layers:
2 (R-Br)
Free-text description:
1. Red earth, quartz, a little black (high Si, 2 layers) 2. Lead white, a little bone black and umber
Paint layers (oil)
canvas
Layer information:
(Counting from the support up towards the paint layers)
Layer 2:
Colour: Brown
Composition: Lead white, bone black, umber
Layer 1:
Colour: Red
Composition: Red earth, quartz, black
Data information:
Reliability-rating:
1
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.