M328: Portrait of a white-haired man

Object information

Artist REMBRANDT Executed in Amsterdam Support canvas Medium oil Dimensions (cm) None × None Signed UNCLEAR Museum Unknown [inv.nr: 323]

Data

Overview
Sample data

Description:

Preparatory layers 2 (G-DG) 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 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.