M334: Portrait of Bartholomeus Breenbergh

(1644)

Biographical information

By:

BACKER, Jacob

Executed in:

Amsterdam

Support:

canvas

Medium:

oil

Dimensions (cm):

93.00 x 72.00

Signed?

YES

Museum:

Amsterdam Museum [inv.nr: A 23536]

Data

Overview
Sample data

Description:

Preparatory layers:

2 (R-G)

Free-text description:

1. Red earth 2. Lead white, chalk?, charcoal black, a little yellow ochre

Paint layers (oil)

canvas

Layer information:

(Counting from the support up towards the paint layers)

Layer 2:

Colour: Grey

Composition: Lead white, chalk, charcoal black, yellow ochre

Layer 1:

Colour: Red

Composition: Red earth

Data information:

Reliability-rating:

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.