M559: Interior of the St. Bavokerk in Haarlem, seen from the south ambulatory, looking across the choir to the north ambulatory and the large organ, 15 April 1636

(1636)

Biographical information

By:

SAENREDAM, Pieter

Executed in:

Haarlem

Support:

panel

Medium:

oil

Dimensions (cm):

93.70 x 55.20

Signed?

YES

Museum:

Rijksmuseum [inv.nr: SK-A-359]

Description:

Preparatory layers:

2 (LY-W)

Free-text description:

1. Chalk ground 2. Lead white layer

Paint layers (oil)

panel

Layer information:

(Counting from the support up towards the paint layers)

Layer 2:

Colour: White

Composition: Lead white

Layer 1:

Colour: Light yellow

Composition: Calcium carbonate (chalk)

Data information:

Reliability-rating:

Researchers:

Arie Wallert

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.