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

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

Object information

Artist SAENREDAM, Pieter Executed in Haarlem Support panel Medium oil Dimensions (cm) 93.70 × 55.20 Signed YES Museum Rijksmuseum [inv.nr: SK-A-359] Museum link View on museum site RKD RKD link

Data

Overview
Sample data

Description:

Preparatory layers 2 (LY-W) 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 2

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.