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

Object information

Artist GOYEN, Jan van Executed in the Hague Support panel Medium oil Dimensions (cm) 64.50 × 96.70 Signed YES Museum Rijksmuseum [inv.nr: SK-A-4879] Museum link View on museum site RKD RKD link

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Description:

Preparatory layers 2 (LY-LBr) Description 1. Thin white chalk ground 2. White lead, chalk, a little earth

Paint layers (oil)

panel

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(Counting from the support up towards the paint layers)

Layer 2:

Colour: Light brown

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Layer 1:

Colour: Light yellow

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Reliability 2

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.