M740: The Fall of Phaeton
(c.1604-1608)
Biographical information
By:
RUBENS, Peter PaulExecuted in:
Support:
canvas
Medium:
oil
Dimensions (cm):
98.40 x 131.20
Signed?
UNCLEAR
Museum:
National Gallery of Art [inv.nr: 1990.1.1]
Museum-link
Data
Description:
Preparatory layers:
1 (Y)
Free-text description:
1. Yellow-tan ground based on ochre and clay materials
Paint layers (oil)
canvas
Layer information:
(Counting from the support up towards the paint layers)
Layer 1:
Colour: Yellow
Composition: Siliceous earths, calcite, and traces of dolomite, colored with small amounts of ochre and charcoal black
Data information:
Reliability-rating:
1
Analytical Techniques:
Sampled?
YES
Microscopy?
YES
Elemental?
YES
Researchers:
Melanie Gifford
Source:
Gifford, Melanie. “Rubens’s Invention and Evolution: Material Evidence in The Fall of Phaeton.” Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art 11, no. 2 (2019). https://jhna.org/articles/rubens-invention-evolution-fall-of-phaeton/.