M613: Merry Company with Masked Dancers

(1636)

Biographical information

By:

CODDE, Pieter

Executed in:

Amsterdam

Support:

panel

Medium:

oil

Dimensions (cm):

50.00 x 76.50

Signed?

YES

Museum:

Mauritshuis [inv.nr: Mh392]

Data

Overview
Sample data

Description:

Preparatory layers:

2 (LBr-G)

Free-text description:

1. Thin layer fills the wood grain, contains lead white, chalk, red-brown earth pigments 2. Warm grey layer contains lead white, fine lampblack, brown earth. Used as midtone, exposed in background

Paint layers (oil)

panel

Layer information:

(Counting from the support up towards the paint layers)

Layer 2:

Colour: Grey

Composition: Lead white, fine lamp black, brown earth

Layer 1:

Colour: Light brown

Composition: Lead white, chalk, red-brown earth pigments

Data information:

Reliability-rating:

Analytical Techniques:

Sampled?

YES

Microscopy?

YES

Elemental?

YES

Researchers:

Carol Pottasch, Sanne Berbers

Source:

Suchtelen, Ariane van, Quentin Buvelot, Milou Goverde, Abbie Vandivere, Lea van der Vinde, Edwin Buijsen, Carol Pottasch, Sabrina Meloni, Maud Lankester, and Yvette Bruijnen. Genre Paintings in the Mauritshuis. Zwolle: Waanders publishers, 2016.