M388: A dog and a cat near a partially disemboweled deer

Object information

Artist WEENIX, Jan Baptist Executed in Amsterdam Support canvas Medium oil Dimensions (cm) 180.00 × 162.00 Signed YES Museum Rijksmuseum [inv.nr: SK-A-591]

Data

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Sample data

Description:

Preparatory layers 2 (Br-DG) Description 1. Lead white, chalk, earth pigments, carbon black 2. Carbon black, a little lead white and earth pigments

Paint layers (oil)

canvas

Layer information:

(Counting from the support up towards the paint layers)

Layer 2:

Colour: Dark grey

Composition: Carbon black, lead white, earth pigments

Layer 1:

Colour: Brown

Composition: Lead white, chalk, earth pigments, carbon black

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.