M398: Still life with fruits and flowers
(1620-1621)
Biographical information
By:
AST, Balthasar van derExecuted in:
Support:
panel
Medium:
oil
Dimensions (cm):
39.20 x 69.80
Signed?
YES
Museum:
Rijksmuseum [inv.nr: SK-A-2152]
Museum-link
RKD-link
Data
Description:
Preparatory layers:
3 (LY-LG)
Free-text description:
1. Chalk and glue ground 2. Layer of lead white, ochre and bone black 3. Imprimatura of lead white and lamp black
Paint layers (oil)
panel
Layer information:
(Counting from the support up towards the paint layers)
Layer 3:
Colour: Grey
Composition: Lead white, lamp black
Layer 2:
Colour: Light grey
Composition: Lead white, ochre, bone black
Layer 1:
Colour: Light yellow
Composition: Calcium carbonate (chalk)
Data information:
Reliability-rating:
2
Analytical Techniques:
Sampled?
YES
Researchers:
Arie Wallert, Gwen Tauber
Source:
Bikker, Jonathan, Yvette Bruijnen, and Gerdien Wuestman, eds. Dutch Paintings of the Seventeenth Century in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam: Volume 1 - Artists Born between 1570 and 1600. Amsterdam: Rijksmuseum; Nieuw Amsterdam, 2007.