M451: View of a town on a river

Object information

Artist GOYEN, Jan van Executed in the Hague Support canvas Medium oil Dimensions (cm) 131.50 × 165.30 Signed YES Museum Rijksmuseum [inv.nr: SK-A-120] Museum link View on museum site RKD RKD link

Data

Overview
Sample data

Description:

Preparatory layers 2 (LG-LBr) 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 2

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)