M299: Old woman cutting her nails

Object information

Artist in the style of REMBRANDT Executed in UNKNOWN Support canvas Medium oil Dimensions (cm) 126.10 × 101.90 Signed UNCLEAR Museum Metropolitan Museum of Art [inv.nr: 14.40.609]

Data

Overview
Sample data

Description:

Preparatory layers 1 (Br) 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 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.