M780: Mercury and Aglauros

Object information

Artist FABRITIUS, Carel Executed in UNKNOWN Support canvas Medium oil Dimensions (cm) 72.40 × 91.10 Signed UNCLEAR Museum Museum of Fine Arts, Boston [inv.nr: 3.1143] Museum link View on museum site

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Description:

Preparatory layers 2 (LBr) Description 1. Beige-ochre coloured priming with large lead white particles (and umber?)

Paint layers (oil)

canvas

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(Counting from the support up towards the paint layers)

Layer 2:

Colour: None

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Layer 1:

Colour: Light brown

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Reliability 3

Researchers

Jørgen Wadum

Source

Wadum, Jørgen. “Are the Changed Appearances of Carel Fabritius’ Paintings a Consequence of Mobility?” In Ground Layers in European Painting 1550-1750, edited by Anne Haack Christensen, Angela Jager, and Joyce H. Townsend, Vol. V. CATS Proceedings. London: Archetype Publications, 2019.