M227: The Night Watch

Object information

Artist REMBRANDT Executed in Amsterdam Support canvas Medium oil Dimensions (cm) 379.50 × 453.50 Signed YES Museum Rijksmuseum [inv.nr: SK-C-5] Museum link View on museum site RKD RKD link

Data

Overview
Sample data

Description:

Preparatory layers 1 (Br) 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 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.