M726: Adoration of the shepherds

Object information

Artist MANDER, Karel van Executed in Haarlem Support panel Medium oil Dimensions (cm) 36.00 × 46.50 Signed YES Museum Frans Hals Museum [inv.nr: OS 75-321] Museum link View on museum site

Data

Overview
Sample data

Description:

Preparatory layers 2 (LY-P) 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 1

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.