M241: Self-portrait

Object information

Artist REMBRANDT Executed in Amsterdam Support canvas Medium oil Dimensions (cm) None × None Signed UNCLEAR Museum Unknown [inv.nr: 39]

Data

Overview
Sample data

Description:

Preparatory layers 2 (R-G) Description 1. Red ochre (2 layers), a little quartz, and chalk 2. Lead white, bone (or charcoal?) black, little umber very little red and brown ochre

Paint layers (oil)

canvas

Layer information:

(Counting from the support up towards the paint layers)

Layer 2:

Colour: Grey

Composition: Lead white, bone black, umber, red and brown ochre

Layer 1:

Colour: Red

Composition: Red ochre, quartz, chalk

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.