M330: Portrait of an old man

Object information

Artist REMBRANDT Executed in Amsterdam Support canvas Medium oil Dimensions (cm) 81.90 × 67.70 Signed YES Museum Mauritshuis [inv.nr: Mh1118] Museum link View on museum site RKD RKD link

Data

Overview
Sample data

Description:

Preparatory layers 2 (LBr-LBr) Description 1. Red and brown ochre, chalk, little lead white 2. Brown ochre, a little red, lead white, chalk, a little charcoal black

Paint layers (oil)

canvas

Layer information:

(Counting from the support up towards the paint layers)

Layer 2:

Colour: Light brown

Composition: Brown ochre, red, lead white, chalk, charcoal black

Layer 1:

Colour: Light brown

Composition: Red and brown ochre, chalk, lead white

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.