M328: Portrait of a white-haired man

(1667)

Biographical information


By:
REMBRANDT

Executed in:

Amsterdam


Support:

canvas


Medium:

oil


Dimensions (cm):

None x None


Signed?

UNCLEAR



Museum:

Unknown [inv.nr: 323]




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.



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