M451: View of a town on a river

(1645)

Biographical information

By:

VAN GOYEN, Jan

Executed in:

the Hague

Support:

canvas

Medium:

oil

Dimensions (cm):

131.50 x 165.30

Signed?

YES

Museum:

Rijksmuseum [inv.nr: SK-A-120]

Data

Overview
Sample data

Description:

Preparatory layers:

2 (LG-LBr)

Free-text description:

1. Light gray layer 2. Warm white layer

Paint layers (oil)

canvas

Layer information:

(Counting from the support up towards the paint layers)

Layer 2:

Colour: Light brown

Composition: Large white, small yellow, ochre, brown, and black particles

Layer 1:

Colour: Light grey

Composition: White particles, tiny yellow, ochre, brown, and black pigment particles

Data information:

Reliability-rating:

Researchers:

Nienke Woltman

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 location:

Rijksmuseum (PSD)