M688: Soldiers Looting and Burning a Convent

Object information

Artist SCHELLINKS, Willem Executed in UNKNOWN Support canvas Medium oil Dimensions (cm) 83.70 × 96.80 Signed UNCLEAR Museum Statens Museum for Kunst [inv.nr: KMSsp555] Museum link View on museum site

Data

Overview
Sample data

Description:

Preparatory layers 3 (R-G-DG) Description 1. Red layer 2. Grey layer, mixes down into red layer 3. Dark grey layer

Paint layers (oil)

canvas

Layer information:

(Counting from the support up towards the paint layers)

Layer 3:

Colour: Dark grey

Composition: Carbon black, lead white

Layer 2:

Colour: Grey

Composition: Lead white, carbon black

Layer 1:

Colour: Red

Composition: Red earth, chalk, brown earth, bone black, quartz, barite

Data information:

Reliability 1

Analytical Techniques:

Sampled?

YES

Microscopy?

YES

Elemental?

YES

Researchers

David Buti

Source

SMK Kress/National Gallery spreadsheet (unpublished)

Sample information:

Sample 1 89a, 89b