M598: A Peepshow with Views of the Interior of a Dutch House

Object information

Artist HOOGSTRATEN, Samuel van Executed in Dordrecht Support panel Medium oil Dimensions (cm) 58.00 × 88.00 Signed YES Museum National Gallery [inv.nr: NG3832] Museum link View on museum site RKD RKD link

Data

Overview
Sample data

Description:

Preparatory layers 2 (LY--Br) Description 1. Chalk and glue ground 2. Brown ground with ochres, black, and lead white

Paint layers (oil)

panel

Layer information:

(Counting from the support up towards the paint layers)

Layer 2:

Colour: Brown

Composition: Brown earth, carbon black, lead white

Layer 1:

Colour: Light yellow

Composition: Calcium carbonate (chalk)

Data information:

Reliability 1

Researchers

Joyce Plesters

Source

Brown, Christopher, David Bomford, Joyce Plesters, and John Mills. “Samuel van Hoogstraten: Perspective and Painting.” The National Gallery Technical Bulletin 11 (1987): 63-64, 84.