M725: Portrait of Erard de la Marck

Object information

Artist VERMEYEN, Jan Cornelisz Executed in UNKNOWN Support panel Medium oil Dimensions (cm) 64.40 × 55.50 Signed YES Museum Rijksmuseum [inv.nr: SK-A-4069] Museum link View on museum site RKD RKD link

Data

Overview
Sample data

Description:

Preparatory layers 2 (LY-P) 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 1

Analytical Techniques:

Sampled?

YES

Microscopy?

YES

Elemental?

YES

Researchers

Abbie Vandivere

Source

Bagley-Young, Abigail. “Jan Cornelisz Vermeyen’s ‘Cardinal Erard de La Marck’ and ‘Holy Family’: A Diptych Reunited.” The Burlington Magazine 150, no. 1259 (2008): 76–82.