M336: The Paalhuis and the New Bridge

Object information

Artist BEERSTRATEN, Jan Executed in Amsterdam Support canvas Medium oil Dimensions (cm) 62.50 × 88.50 Signed YES Museum Amsterdam Museum [inv.nr: A 7291]

Data

Overview
Sample data

Description:

Preparatory layers 2 (Br-DBr) 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 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.