M227: The Night Watch
(1642)
Biographical information
By:
REMBRANDTExecuted in:
Support:
canvas
Medium:
oil
Dimensions (cm):
379.50 x 453.50
Signed?
YES
Museum:
Rijksmuseum [inv.nr: SK-C-5]
Museum-link
RKD-link
Data
Description:
Preparatory layers:
1 (Br)
Free-text description:
1. Quartz, feldspar, clay minerals (illite), muscovite, yellow and brown ochre, a little chalk
Paint layers (oil)
canvas
Layer information:
(Counting from the support up towards the paint layers)
Layer 1:
Colour: Brown
Composition: Quartz, feldspar, clay minerals (illite), muscovite, yellow and brown ochre, a little chalk
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.