M724: Holy Family

(c.1528-1530)

Biographical information

By:

VERMEYEN, Jan Cornelisz

Executed in:

UNKNOWN

Support:

panel

Medium:

oil

Dimensions (cm):

64.30 x 54.50

Signed?

YES

Museum:

Rijksmuseum [inv.nr: SK-C-1701]

Museum-link

RKD-link

Data

Overview
Sample data

Description:

Preparatory layers:

2 (LY-P)

Free-text description:

1. Chalk 2. Peach coloured preparatory layer

Paint layers (oil)

panel

Layer information:

(Counting from the support up towards the paint layers)

Layer 2:

Colour: Pink

Composition: Lead white, organic red, vermilion, (charcoal?) black, possibly chalk

Layer 1:

Colour: Light yellow

Composition: Calcium carbonate (chalk)

Data information:

Reliability-rating:

Analytical Techniques:

Sampled?

YES

Microscopy?

YES

Elemental?

YES

Researchers:

Abbie Vandivere

Source:

Vandivere, Abbie. “From the Ground Up: Surface and Sub-Surface Effects in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Netherlandish Paintings.” PhD dissertation, Universiteit van Amsterdam, 2013.