M726: Adoration of the shepherds

(1598)

Biographical information

By:

VAN MANDER, Karel

Executed in:

Haarlem

Support:

panel

Medium:

oil

Dimensions (cm):

36.00 x 46.50

Signed?

YES

Museum:

Frans Hals Museum [inv.nr: OS 75-321]

Museum-link

Data

Overview
Sample data

Description:

Preparatory layers:

2 (LY-P)

Free-text description:

1. Chalk 2. "Flesh coloured" layer of lead white, vermilion, azurite, black

Paint layers (oil)

panel

Layer information:

(Counting from the support up towards the paint layers)

Layer 2:

Colour: Pink

Composition: Lead white, vermilion, azurite, black

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.