M240: A seated man

Object information

Artist REMBRANDT Executed in Amsterdam Support canvas Medium oil Dimensions (cm) None × None Signed UNCLEAR Museum Unknown [inv.nr: 257]

Data

Overview
Sample data

Description:

Preparatory layers 1 (Br) Description 1. Fine yellow and brown iron oxide, a little red earth, quartz, umber (?)

Paint layers (oil)

canvas

Layer information:

(Counting from the support up towards the paint layers)

Layer 1:

Colour: Brown

Composition: Yellow and brown iron oxide, red earth, quartz, umber (?)

Data information:

Reliability 2

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.