M641: Girl Eating Oysters

Object information

Artist STEEN, Jan Executed in UNKNOWN Support panel Medium oil Dimensions (cm) 20.40 × 15.10 Signed YES Museum Mauritshuis [inv.nr: Mh818] Museum link View on museum site RKD RKD link

Data

Overview
Sample data

Description:

Preparatory layers 2 (LBr-LBr) Description 1. Buff-coloured layer 2. Whitish layer of lead white, some umber, and a little chalk

Paint layers (oil)

panel

Layer information:

(Counting from the support up towards the paint layers)

Layer 2:

Colour: Light brown

Composition: Lead white, umber, chalk

Layer 1:

Colour: Light brown

Composition: Calcium carbonate (chalk)

Data information:

Reliability 1

Analytical Techniques:

Sampled?

YES

Microscopy?

YES

Elemental?

YES

Researchers

Sabrina Meloni, Ralph Haswell

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 818X01-03