M740: The Fall of Phaeton

Object information

Artist RUBENS, Peter Paul Executed in UNKNOWN Support canvas Medium oil Dimensions (cm) 98.40 × 131.20 Signed UNCLEAR Museum National Gallery of Art [inv.nr: 1990.1.1] Museum link View on museum site

Data

Overview
Sample data

Description:

Preparatory layers 1 (Y) 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 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/.