M279: The Apostle Paul
(c.1657)
Data
Description:
Preparatory layers:
1 (Br)
Free-text description:
1. Quartz (alpha quartz), clay minerals, a little yellow ochre, chalk, and ilmenite
Paint layers (oil)
canvas
Layer information:
(Counting from the support up towards the paint layers)
Layer 1:
Colour: Brown
Composition: Quartz, clay minerals, yellow ochre, chalk, and ilmenite
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.