M337: Town canal with Heiligewegspoort

(1637-1666)

Biographical information

By:

BEERSTRATEN, Jan

Executed in:

Amsterdam

Support:

canvas

Medium:

oil

Dimensions (cm):

91.00 x 130.00

Signed?

UNCLEAR

Museum:

Amsterdam Museum [inv.nr: A 643]

Data

Overview
Sample data

Description:

Preparatory layers:

2 (R-G)

Free-text description:

1. Chalk, red ochre (2 layers, top more translucent) 2. Lead white, chalk(?), charcoal black, umber

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, umber

Layer 1:

Colour: Red

Composition: Chalk, red ochre

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.