M737: Minerva protects Pax from Mars ('Peace and War')

(1629-1630)

Biographical information


By:
RUBENS, Peter Paul

Executed in:

London


Support:

canvas


Medium:

oil


Dimensions (cm):

203.50 x 298.00


Signed?

UNCLEAR



Museum:

National Gallery [inv.nr: NG46]


Museum-link

RKD-link


Data


Description:


Preparatory layers:

2 (R-G)


Free-text description:

1. Thick reddish-brown translucent layer composed of calcium carbonate and red earth 2. Very thin upper priming of a warmish mid grey-brown


Paint layers (oil)

canvas


Layer information:

(Counting from the support up towards the paint layers)


Layer 2:

Colour: Grey

Composition:


Layer 1:

Colour: Red

Composition: Calcium carbonate (chalk), red earth


Data information:


Reliability-rating:

1


Analytical Techniques:

Sampled?

YES

Microscopy?

YES

Elemental?

YES


Researchers:

National Gallery Scientific Department


Source:

Roy, Ashok. “Rubens’s ‘Peace and War.’” National Gallery Technical Bulletin 20 (1999).



Sample information:


Sample location:

National Gallery London

No sample images available.