M242: Man with curly grey hair
(1650)
Biographical information
By:
REMBRANDTExecuted in:
Support:
canvas
Medium:
oil
Dimensions (cm):
80.50 x 66.50
Signed?
YES
Museum:
Mauritshuis [inv.nr: Mh560]
Museum-link
RKD-link
Data
Description:
Preparatory layers:
2 (R-G)
Free-text description:
1. Red ochre, umber, chalk, a little lead white 2. Lead white, brown ochre, umber, a little red ochre and charcoal black
Paint layers (oil)
canvas
Layer information:
(Counting from the support up towards the paint layers)
Layer 2:
Colour: Grey
Composition: Lead white, brown ochre, red ochre, charcoal black
Layer 1:
Colour: Red
Composition: Red ochre, umber, chalk, lead white
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.