M617: Sight

Object information

Artist MOLENAER, Jan Miense Executed in Amsterdam Support panel Medium oil Dimensions (cm) 19.70 × 23.90 Signed YES Museum Mauritshuis [inv.nr: Mh573] Museum link View on museum site RKD RKD link

Data

Overview
Sample data

Description:

Preparatory layers 2 (LY-LBr) Description 1. Off-white ground of chalk and lead white to fill the wood grains 2. A thin warm beige imprimatura of lead white with warm brown earth pigments. Left exposed and shimmers through in areas

Paint layers (oil)

panel

Layer information:

(Counting from the support up towards the paint layers)

Layer 2:

Colour: Light brown

Composition: Lead white, brown earth

Layer 1:

Colour: Light yellow

Composition: Lead white, chalk

Data information:

Reliability 1

Analytical Techniques:

Sampled?

YES

Microscopy?

YES

Elemental?

YES

Researchers

Abbie Vandivere, Lieve d'Hont

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.

Sample information:

Sample 1 573x01