M365: Portrait of the painter Paulus Potter

Object information

Artist HELST, Bartholomeus van der Executed in Amsterdam Support canvas Medium oil Dimensions (cm) 99.00 × 80.00 Signed UNCLEAR Museum Mauritshuis [inv.nr: Mh54] Museum link View on museum site RKD RKD link

Data

Overview
Sample data

Description:

Preparatory layers 2 (R-G) 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 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.