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

Object information

Artist RUBENS, Peter Paul Executed in London Support canvas Medium oil Dimensions (cm) 203.50 × 298.00 Signed UNCLEAR Museum National Gallery [inv.nr: NG46] Museum link View on museum site RKD RKD link

Data

Overview
Sample data

Description:

Preparatory layers 2 (R-G) 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 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