M785: Officers and Other Civic Guardsmen of District XVIII in Amsterdam, under the Command of Captain Albert Dircksz Bas and Lieutenant Lucas Pietersz Conijn

Officers and Other Civic Guardsmen of District XVIII in Amsterdam, under the Command of Captain Albert Dircksz Bas and Lieutenant Lucas Pietersz Conijn

Object information

Artist FLINCK, Govert Executed in UNKNOWN Support canvas Medium oil Dimensions (cm) 338.70 × 242.50 Signed YES Museum Rijksmuseum [inv.nr: SK-C-371] Museum link View on museum site

Description:

Preparatory layers 2 (DO-G) Description 1. Orangey brick red with occasional black and white pigment particles 2. Warm pink-grey with coarse chunks of white pigment, charcoal black, and earth pigments

Paint layers (oil)

canvas

Layer information:

(Counting from the support up towards the paint layers)

Layer 2:

Colour: Grey

Composition: White, charcoal black, earth pigments

Layer 1:

Colour: Dark orange

Composition: Red earth, black, white

Data information:

Reliability 2

Analytical Techniques:

Sampled?

YES

Microscopy?

YES

Researchers

Gwen Tauber

Source

Rijksmuseum Paint Sample Database

Sample information:

Sample 1 SK-C-371 Sample location Rijksmuseum (PSD)