M301: Two African men

Object information

Artist REMBRANDT Executed in Amsterdam Support canvas Medium oil Dimensions (cm) 77.80 × 64.40 Signed YES Museum Mauritshuis [inv.nr: Mh685] Museum link View on museum site RKD RKD link

Data

Overview
Sample data

Description:

Preparatory layers 2 (R-Br) Description 1. Red earth, chalk 2. Lead white, chalk, brown ochre, a little yellow ochre, and bone black

Paint layers (oil)

canvas

Layer information:

(Counting from the support up towards the paint layers)

Layer 2:

Colour: Brown

Composition: Lead white, chalk, brown ochre, yellow ochre, and bone black

Layer 1:

Colour: Red

Composition: Red earth, chalk

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.