M247: The Centurion Cornelius

(c.1650)

Biographical information

By:

REMBRANDT

Executed in:

Amsterdam

Support:

canvas

Medium:

oil

Dimensions (cm):

176.50 x 216.20

Signed?

UNCLEAR

Museum:

Wallace Collection [inv.nr: P86]

Museum-link

Data

Overview
Sample data

Description:

Preparatory layers:

1 (Br)

Free-text description:

1. Quartz, clay minerals, ilmenite, a little umber, red 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, clay minerals, ilmenite, umber, red ochre, chalk

Data information:

Reliability-rating:

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.