M452: View of an imaginary town across a river, with the tower of Saint Pol in Vianen

(1649)

Biographical information

By:

VAN GOYEN, Jan

Executed in:

the Hague

Support:

panel

Medium:

oil

Dimensions (cm):

64.50 x 96.70

Signed?

YES

Museum:

Rijksmuseum [inv.nr: SK-A-4879]

Data

Overview
Sample data

Description:

Preparatory layers:

2 (LY-LBr)

Free-text description:

1. Thin white chalk ground 2. White lead, chalk, a little earth

Paint layers (oil)

panel

Layer information:

(Counting from the support up towards the paint layers)

Layer 2:

Colour: Light brown

Composition:

Layer 1:

Colour: Light yellow

Composition:

Data information:

Reliability-rating:

Researchers:

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.