M384: The Annunciation

Object information

Artist VELDE, Adriaen van de Executed in Amsterdam Support canvas Medium oil Dimensions (cm) 128.00 × 176.00 Signed YES Museum Rijksmuseum [inv.nr: SK-A-2688]

Data

Overview
Sample data

Description:

Preparatory layers 2 (LBr-G) Description 1. Chalk, a little umber 2. Lead white, coarse black pigment, (chalk?)

Paint layers (oil)

canvas

Layer information:

(Counting from the support up towards the paint layers)

Layer 2:

Colour: Grey

Composition: Lead white, black pigment

Layer 1:

Colour: Light brown

Composition: Chalk, umber

Data information:

Reliability 2

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.