M468: Adoration of the Kings

(c.1510-1515)

Biographical information

By:

GOSSAERT, Jan

Executed in:

Middelburg

Support:

panel

Medium:

oil

Dimensions (cm):

179.80 x 163.20

Signed?

YES

Museum:

National Gallery [inv.nr: NG 2790]

Museum-link

Data

Overview
Sample data

Description:

Preparatory layers:

2 (LY-Y)

Free-text description:

1. Chalk ground 2. Layer of lead white and lead tin yellow

Paint layers (oil)

panel

Layer information:

(Counting from the support up towards the paint layers)

Layer 2:

Colour: Yellow

Composition: Lead white, lead tin yellow

Layer 1:

Colour: Light yellow

Composition: Calcium carbonate (chalk)

Data information:

Reliability-rating:

Source:

Billinge, Rachel, Lorne Campbell, Jill Dunkerton, Susan Foister, Jo Kirby, Jennie Pilc, Ashok Roy, Marika Spring, Raymond White, and The National Gallery. “Gossaert’s ‘Adoration of the Kings.’” National Gallery Technical Bulletin 18 (1997).