M390: The Company of Captain Dirck Jacobsz Rosecrans and Lieutenant Pauw, Amsterdam, 1588

Object information

Artist KETEL, Cornelis Executed in Amsterdam Support canvas Medium oil Dimensions (cm) 208.00 × 410.00 Signed UNCLEAR Museum Rijksmuseum [inv.nr: SK-C-378] Museum link View on museum site RKD RKD link

Description:

Preparatory layers 2 (DG-G) Description *Red layer applied to the back of the canvas 1. Dark drey ground 2. Warm grey ground layer

Paint layers (oil)

canvas

Layer information:

(Counting from the support up towards the paint layers)

Layer 2:

Colour: Grey

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

Layer 1:

Colour: Dark grey

Composition: Lead white, charcoal black, chalk, few earth pigments

Data information:

Reliability 1

Researchers

Arie Wallert

Source

Smeenk-Metz, Erika, Barbara Schoonhoven, and Arie Wallert. “Changes to a Civic Guard Portrait: The Technical Investigation of Cornelis Ketel’s Militia Company of Captain Dirck Jacobsz Ros.” The Rijksmuseum Bulletin 61, no. 3 (2013): 250–75.

Sample information:

Sample location Rijksmuseum (PSD)