M784: Militia Company of District VIII under the Command of Captain Roelof Bicker Officers and other Civic Guardsmen of the VIII District in Amsterdam under the command of Captain Roelof Bicker and Lieutenant Jan Michielsz Blaeuw

Militia Company of District VIII under the Command of Captain Roelof Bicker
Officers and other Civic Guardsmen of the VIII District in Amsterdam under the command of Captain Roelof Bicker and Lieutenant Jan Michielsz Blaeuw

Object information

Artist HELST, Bartholomeus van der Executed in UNKNOWN Support canvas Medium oil Dimensions (cm) 235.00 × 750.00 Signed YES Museum Rijksmuseum [inv.nr: SK-C-375] Museum link View on museum site

Description:

Preparatory layers 2 (R-G) Description 1. Red earth layer with large red chunk (hematite?) and brown particles 2. Coarse, warm grey with white, black, and earth colours

Paint layers (oil)

canvas

Layer information:

(Counting from the support up towards the paint layers)

Layer 2:

Colour: Grey

Composition: White, black, earth colours

Layer 1:

Colour: Red

Composition: Red earth, brown

Data information:

Reliability 2

Analytical Techniques:

Sampled?

YES

Microscopy?

YES

Researchers

Gwen Tauber

Source

Rijksmuseum Paint Sample Database

Sample information:

Sample 1 SK-C-375 Sample location Rijksmuseum (PSD)