M628: Mother Combing Her Child's Hair, known as 'Hunting for Lice'

Object information

Artist BORCH, Gerard ter Executed in UNKNOWN Support panel Medium oil Dimensions (cm) 33.20 × 28.70 Signed YES Museum Mauritshuis [inv.nr: Mh744] Museum link View on museum site RKD RKD link

Data

Overview
Sample data

Description:

Preparatory layers 7 (LY-LBr) Description (some of the seven layers may be part of another composition under the present one) 1. Thin white layer 2. Thick, bright red layer 30-100um 3. Light brown layer 15-50um 4. Very thin dark grey later around 5um 5. Light grey layer 25-40um 6. Dark brown layer 15-25um 7. Light brown layer 10-25um All layers apart from the dark grey one are characterised by a large variety of particle sizes

Paint layers (oil)

panel

Layer information:

(Counting from the support up towards the paint layers)

Data information:

Reliability 2

Analytical Techniques:

Sampled?

YES

Microscopy?

YES

Elemental?

Researchers

Esther van Duijn

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 744x01-02