M289: Self-portrait

Object information

Artist REMBRANDT Executed in Amsterdam Support canvas Medium oil Dimensions (cm) None × None Signed UNCLEAR Museum Unknown [inv.nr: 54]

Data

Overview
Sample data

Description:

Preparatory layers 2 (Br-G) Description 1. Chalk, a little brown ochre 2. Chalk, a little ochre and umber, very little lamp black

Paint layers (oil)

canvas

Layer information:

(Counting from the support up towards the paint layers)

Layer 2:

Colour: Grey

Composition: Chalk, ochre, umber, lamp black

Layer 1:

Colour: Brown

Composition: Chalk, brown ochre

Data information:

Reliability 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.