M336: The Paalhuis and the New Bridge

(1663)

Biographical information

By:

BEERSTRATEN, Jan

Executed in:

Amsterdam

Support:

canvas

Medium:

oil

Dimensions (cm):

62.50 x 88.50

Signed?

YES

Museum:

Amsterdam Museum [inv.nr: A 7291]

Data

Overview
Sample data

Description:

Preparatory layers:

2 (Br-DBr)

Free-text description:

1. Umber, chalk, a little lead white 2. Brown ochre, umber, barytes, quartz

Paint layers (oil)

canvas

Layer information:

(Counting from the support up towards the paint layers)

Layer 2:

Colour: Dark brown

Composition: Brown ochre, umber, barytes, quartz

Layer 1:

Colour: Brown

Composition: Umber, chalk, lead white

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.