M334: Portrait of Bartholomeus Breenbergh

Object information

Artist BACKER, Jacob Executed in Amsterdam Support canvas Medium oil Dimensions (cm) 93.00 × 72.00 Signed YES Museum Amsterdam Museum [inv.nr: A 23536]

Data

Overview
Sample data

Description:

Preparatory layers 2 (R-G) 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 2

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.