M718: Allegory of Old Age. Time and the Scholar

Object information

Artist ISAACSZ., Pieter Executed in UNKNOWN Support canvas Medium oil Dimensions (cm) 227.00 × 343.00 Signed UNCLEAR Museum Statens Museum for Kunst [inv.nr: KMS1170] Museum link View on museum site

Data

Overview
Sample data

Description:

Preparatory layers 3 (O-O-G) Description 1. Orange layer 2. Orange layer 3. Grey layer

Paint layers (oil)

canvas

Layer information:

(Counting from the support up towards the paint layers)

Layer 3:

Colour: Grey

Composition: Silicate, aluminosilicates, quartz, apatite, red lake, azurite, hematite

Layer 2:

Colour: Orange

Composition: Aluminosilicates, red earth, red lake. carbon black, quartz, lead white, lead soap

Layer 1:

Colour: Orange

Composition: Red earth

Data information:

Reliability 1

Analytical Techniques:

Sampled?

YES

Microscopy?

YES

Elemental?

YES

Researchers

Gianluca Pastorelli

Source

SMK Kress/National Gallery spreadsheet (unpublished)

Sample information:

Sample 1 KMS1170-F1