M288: Self-portrait

Object information

Artist REMBRANDT Executed in Amsterdam Support canvas Medium oil Dimensions (cm) None × None Signed UNCLEAR Museum Unknown [inv.nr: Bauch 337]

Data

Overview
Sample data

Description:

Preparatory layers 1 (Br) Description 1. Quartz (XRD: 70-80%), phyllite, chlorite, sericite, kaolinite, limonite (iron oxide), a little calcite

Paint layers (oil)

canvas

Layer information:

(Counting from the support up towards the paint layers)

Layer 1:

Colour: Brown

Composition: Quartz, phyllite, chlorite, sericite, kaolinite, limonite (iron oxide), calcite

Data information:

Reliability 2

Researchers

Kuhn, 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.