M328: Portrait of a white-haired man
(1667)
Data
Description:
Preparatory layers:
2 (G-DG)
Free-text description:
1. Lead white, chalk, umber charcoal black, a little quartz 2. Nearly identical to 1st ground, slightly darker
Paint layers (oil)
canvas
Layer information:
(Counting from the support up towards the paint layers)
Layer 2:
Colour: Dark grey
Composition: Lead white, chalk, umber charcoal black, quartz
Layer 1:
Colour: Grey
Composition: Lead white, chalk, umber charcoal black, 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.