M365: Portrait of the painter Paulus Potter
(1654)
Biographical information
By:
HELST, Bartholomeus van derExecuted in:
Support:
canvas
Medium:
oil
Dimensions (cm):
99.00 x 80.00
Signed?
UNCLEAR
Museum:
Mauritshuis [inv.nr: Mh54]
Museum-link
Data
Description:
Preparatory layers:
2 (R-G)
Free-text description:
1. Red earth, a little black and umber 2. Lead white, black, ochre or umber
Paint layers (oil)
canvas
Layer information:
(Counting from the support up towards the paint layers)
Layer 2:
Colour: Grey
Composition: Lead white, black, ochre or umber
Layer 1:
Colour: Red
Composition: Red earth, black, umber
Data information:
Reliability-rating:
2
Researchers:
Potash, 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.