M287: Moses with the Tables

(1659)

Biographical information

By:

REMBRANDT

Executed in:

Amsterdam

Support:

canvas

Medium:

oil

Dimensions (cm):

None x None

Signed?

UNCLEAR

Museum:

Unknown [inv.nr: 527]

Data

Overview
Sample data

Description:

Preparatory layers:

1 (Y)

Free-text description:

1. Chalk, very little umber

Paint layers (oil)

canvas

Layer information:

(Counting from the support up towards the paint layers)

Layer 1:

Colour: Yellow

Composition: Calcium carbonate (chalk), umber

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.