M374: Portrait of a man

Object information

Artist LIEVENS, Jan Executed in Amsterdam Support canvas Medium oil Dimensions (cm) None × None Signed UNCLEAR Museum SKRA [inv.nr: 1681]

Data

Overview
Sample data

Description:

Preparatory layers 2 (O-G) Description 1. Orange-red earth (high Si) 2. Lead white, chalk (?), charcoal black, yellow iron oxide

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, yellow iron oxide

Layer 1:

Colour: Orange

Composition: Orange-red earth

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.