M398: Still life with fruits and flowers

Object information

Artist AST, Balthasar van der Executed in Utrecht Support panel Medium oil Dimensions (cm) 39.20 × 69.80 Signed YES Museum Rijksmuseum [inv.nr: SK-A-2152] Museum link View on museum site RKD RKD link

Data

Overview
Sample data

Description:

Preparatory layers 3 (LY-LG) 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 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.

Sample information:

Sample 1 R43/1-14 Sample location Rijksmuseum (PSD)