M400: Winter landscape with skaters

(c.1608)

Biographical information

By:

AVERCAMP, Hendrick

Executed in:

Amsterdam

Support:

panel

Medium:

oil

Dimensions (cm):

77.30 x 131.90

Signed?

YES

Museum:

Rijksmuseum [inv.nr: SK-A-1718]

Data

Overview
Sample data

Description:

Preparatory layers:

2 (LY-W)

Free-text description:

1. Chalk 2. Thin white imprimatura

Paint layers (oil)

panel

Layer information:

(Counting from the support up towards the paint layers)

Layer 2:

Colour: White

Composition: Lead white

Layer 1:

Colour: Light yellow

Composition: Calcium carbonate (chalk)

Data information:

Reliability-rating:

Analytical Techniques:

Sampled?

YES

Microscopy?

YES

Researchers:

M. de Keyser, Ige Verslype, Arie Wallert

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.