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Table II. Grounds on panel (continued) Corpus
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Bredius
Title
Location
375
Head of a young girl
Private Coll.
252 256 272 437 457 291 302 261
Ephraim Bueno Portrait of a warrior Rabbi Woman bathing (Calisto) The slaughtered ox Coppenol Old man Bust of an old man in a cap
Amsterdam Cambridge Dresden London Paris New York Washington Milwaukee, Coll. Bader
56
‘Self-portrait’
Lisbon Fund. Medeiros e Almeida
c.
c. c.
Date
1st ground
2nd ground
1645
1st ground missing?
1647 1650 1654 1654 1655 1658 1660 s? 1661
1st ground missing? chalk chalk chalk chalk chalk lead white, iron oxide lead white, bone(?) black, a little red and brown ochre lead white, charcoal
lead white, (chalk as well?), a little brown and red ochre and black lead white, a little red and brown ochre, bone black lead white, chalk, ochre lead white, chalk, a little ochre lead white, yellow brown earth, umber brownish lead white, a little ochre and/or umber
?
Colour 2nd ground
Analyses
Source
CS
Groen
Figs.
yellowish yellowish yellowish warm brown light brown yellowish grey (granular) grey
CS EDX CS Microprobe CS ESA XRD CS EDX CS CS EDX XRF CS
Groen Groen Kühn 1977 Bomford 1988 Lab. Musées de France Groen Report NGA, Wheelock 1995 Groen
brown
CS
Groen
Table III. Grounds on canvas (including the grounds in Tables IV, V and VI) Corpus
Bredius
Title
Location
Date
1st ground
2nd ground
Colour 2nd ground
Analyses
Source
Figs.
II C 61
84
Young woman in a cap
Private coll. Zurich
1632
CS EDX
Groen
11
164
Man trimming his quill
Kassel
1632
light yellowish
CS EDX ESA XRD
Groen
7
II II II II II II
C 69 C 68 A 48 A 51 C 65 C 66
331 167 169 403 406 407
New York New York New York The Hague London, Wallace Coll. London, Wallace Coll.
1632 1632 1632 1632 1632 /33 1632 /33
grey grey light yellowish light yellowish grey grey
CS XRF CS XRF ESA XRD CS EDX XRF CS EDX XRD CS EDX CS
Groen Groen Groen Groen Groen Groen
4 3 5 6 12
II A 64
494
Portrait of a woman Portrait of a man Man in oriental dress Anatomy lesson of Dr Tulp Jean Pellicorn and his son Susanna van Collen with her daughter Young woman at her toilet
Ottawa
1632 /33
lead white, a little yellow and red ochre, chalk, fine (lamp)black lead white, a little yellow ochre, bone black, very little chalk lead white, charcoal black, yellow and a little red ochre lead white, charcoal black, yellow and a little red ochre lead white, a little red ochre, lamp black lead white, a little yellow ochre, lamp black lead white, very little red ochre and fine black lead white, fine black, very little brown, red and yellow ochre lead white (mainly)
light yellowish
II A 54
red earth, a little umber (2 layers?) red earth
II A 81 II A 78 II A 80 II B 8 II A 79 II A 70 III B 9
171 172 173 180 341 467 522
Portrait of a man (Krul) Man rising from his chair Wtenbogaert Man in oriental dress Woman in an armchair Bellona Esther before Haman
Kassel Cincinnati Amsterdam Washington New York New York Bucharest
II A 98 II A 99 II A 95 II A 91 III A 107 III A 111
200 347 432 470 565 30
Johannes Elison Maria Bockenolle Scholar Cupid blowing a bubble The Lamentation The prodigal son
Boston Boston Prague Liechtenstein Coll. London Dresden
1633 1633 1633 1633 1633 1633 1633 1650s 1634 1634 1634 1634 1634 /35 1635
III A 112 III C 112
103 348
London New York
III A 113 III A 110 III A 109
471 497 499
Flora Portrait of a 70-year old woman Rape of Ganymede Belshazzar’s feast Samson threatening his father-in-law Samson threatening his father-in-law Danae
III A 109 copy 1 499 III A 119
474
Dresden London Berlin
c.
c.
c. c.
1635 1635
red earth, chalk, a little lead white red earth red earth, a little umber (high Si) red earth red earth, umber, quartz red earth, chalk, quartz red earth, umber, quartz red earth/umber (high Si and Al) red earth/umber (high Si and Al) red ochre red earth, a little umber (high Si) orange-red earth red and yellow ochre, a little quartz and calcite orange-red earth red earth, umber
Private coll. Miami
1635 /36
red earth, a little quartz and calcite orange-red earth red earth, quartz (2 layers, top one thin and translucent) red earth, a little umber
St Petersburg
1636 /42
red earth, a little quartz and feldspar
662
c.
1635 1635 1635
red earth (2 layers) red earth (2 layers) red earth, umber red ochre, umber, Al-silicates red earth, a little umber (2 layers) red earth (brownish), vey little black and umber red ochre, quartz, lead white
lead white, a little bone black lead white, black(?) lead white, a little umber and yellow ochre, very little black lead white, lamp black, a little red lead and yellow ochre lead white, yellow ochre, little red ochre, lamp black lead white, little ochre/umber, lamp black lead white, lumps of brightyellow ochre, little red ochre, lamp black lead white, a little bone black, very little ochre lead white, a little bone black, very little ochre lead white lead white, a little umber and black lead white, a little umber and fine-grained black lead white, charcoal black
light yellow brown
CS X-ray macroprobe Stolov 1969, rapport Wainwright grey CS ESA Kühn 1965, 1976 light neutral grey Intermuseum Labs 1962 yellowish CS EDX Groen light yellowish CS Groen light yellowish grey CS EDX XRF Groen fawnish grey CS EDX XRF Groen light yellowishfawnish CS SEM-EDX Groen grey light yellowish grey CS EDX Groen light yellowish grey CS EDX Groen white CS? XRD Kühn 1965 grey CS EDX Groen light grey CS EDX Bomford 1988 grey CS ESA Kühn 1977
lead white, charcoal black, a little ochre light grey lead white, umber, a little bone, a little red and brown ochre light grey
CS EDX/LMA CS EDX
Bomford 1988 Groen
lead white, chalk, a little black lead white, umber, carbon black lead white, very little red and brown ochre and black
grey light fawnish grey yellowish grey
CS ESA XRD CS EDX/LMA CS EDX
Kühn 1977 Bomford 1988 Groen
lead white, bone black, a little brown and yellow ochre
grey
CS EDX
Groen
lead white, a little bone black
light grey
CS EDX XRF
Kosolapov, A.
663
9 8 10