M646: 'As the Old Sing, So Pipe the Young'

(c.1668-1670)

Biographical information

By:

STEEN, Jan

Executed in:

Haarlem

Support:

canvas

Medium:

oil

Dimensions (cm):

133.70 x 162.50

Signed?

UNCLEAR

Museum:

Mauritshuis [inv.nr: Mh742]

Data

Overview
Sample data

Description:

Preparatory layers:

1 (Br)

Free-text description:

1. Single greyish-brown coloured ground layer containing lead white, lead tin yellow, red and brown earth, bone black, red lake, silicates, and quartz

Paint layers (oil)

canvas

Layer information:

(Counting from the support up towards the paint layers)

Layer 1:

Colour: Brown

Composition: Lead white, lead tin yellow, red and brown earth, bone black, red lake, silicates, and quartz

Data information:

Reliability-rating:

Analytical Techniques:

Sampled?

YES

Microscopy?

YES

Elemental?

YES

Researchers:

Carol Pottasch, 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.