M299: Old woman cutting her nails
(c.1655-1660)
Biographical information
in the style of
REMBRANDTExecuted in:
Support:
canvas
Medium:
oil
Dimensions (cm):
126.10 x 101.90
Signed?
UNCLEAR
Museum:
Metropolitan Museum of Art [inv.nr: 14.40.609]
Data
Description:
Preparatory layers:
1 (Br)
Free-text description:
1. Chalk, a little red ochre, umber and quartz
Paint layers (oil)
canvas
Layer information:
(Counting from the support up towards the paint layers)
Layer 1:
Colour: Brown
Composition: Chalk, red ochre, umber, quartz
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.