M327: Portrait of a young man
(1666)
Data
Description:
Preparatory layers:
2 (R-Br)
Free-text description:
1. Red brown earth, chalk, lead white 2. Lead white, bone black, brown ochre, little red, little chalk
Paint layers (oil)
canvas
Layer information:
(Counting from the support up towards the paint layers)
Layer 2:
Colour: Brown
Composition: Lead white, bone black, brown ochre, red, chalk
Layer 1:
Colour: Red
Composition: Red brown earth, chalk, lead white
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.