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Table III. Grounds on canvas (including the grounds in Tables IV, V and VI) (continued) Corpus
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PAINTINGS IN THE LABORATORY: Scientific Examination for Art History and Conservation
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Title
Location
Date
1st ground
Colour 2nd ground
Analyses
Source
Figs.
416
Jewish Bride
Amsterdam
c.
1665
quartz, clay minerals, brown ochre, a little chalk and ilmenite
brown
CS EDX XRD
Groen
19, 21, 22, 24, 25, 26
417 618
Family portrait Evangelist writing
Braunschweig Rotterdam
c. c.
1665 1665
grey brown light yellowish brown
CS ESA XRD CS EDX XRD
Groen Groen
36
322 323
Portrait of a young man Portrait of a white-haired man
Kansas City Melbourne
brown grey
CS EDX CS EDX
Groen Groen
15
324 323A
Man in hat with pearls Portrait of an old man
Dresden The Hague
yellowish brown yellowish brown
CS ESA XRD CS EDX
Kühn 1977 Groen
IV 27 IV 29
55 62
Self-portrait Self-portrait
London The Hague
brown greyish brown
CS EDX/LMA CS EDX XRD
Bomford 1988 Groen
IV 7
41
Cincinnati
light grey
CS EDX
Groen
II A 96 copy 3
21
Rembrandt leaning on a windowsill Self-portrait
Private coll. Maastricht
light red
CS EDX
Groen
II C 61
84
Young woman in a cap, copy
Private coll. Brussel
II C 61
84
Young woman in a cap, copy
Private coll. Paris
239
Old man with a stick, copy
239
Old man with a stick, copy
Amsterdam, Rembrandthuis Liechtenstein Coll.
quartz, clay minerals(?), a little ochre quartz (alpha silica), clay minerals, a little brown ochre, chalk and ilmenite red-brown earth, chalk, lead white lead white, chalk, umber, charcoal black, a little quartz quartz, clay minerals, chalk red and brown ochre, chalk, little lead white quartz, brown ochre lead white, umber, red ochre, bone black lead white, a little charcoal black, umber and chalk lead white, a little chalk, red ochre, carbon black lead white, a little chalk, red ochre, organic red, carbon black red iron oxide, a little lead white and black red earth, a little bone black, umber, quartz (high Si) red earth (high Si = quartz), umber
239 IV 10 version 3 46/47
Old man with a stick, copy Self-portrait with sketchbook
Private coll. Italy Private coll. England
IV 10 version 5 46/47
Self-portrait with sketchbook
Coll. Bader, Milwaukee
CS EDX XRD XRF ESA
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1666 1667 c.
1667 1667 1669 1669
before 1693
1770 1800 prob. 18th c. 18th c. 17th/ 18th c. 17th/ 18th c. 18th c. 17th/ 18th c. 17th/ 18th c.
red and brown ochre brownish-red iron oxide, umber, a little quarts lead white, charcoal black, a little yellow-brown ochre and massicot(?)
2nd ground
lead white, bone black, brown ochre, little red, little chalk nearly identical to 1st ground, slightly darker brown ochre, a little red, lead white, chalk, a little charcoal black
light red
CS EDX
Groen
brown iron oxide, carbon black, a little lead white
red-brown
CS EDX
Groen
lead white, charcoal and bone black, a little umber
grey
CS EDX
Groen
lead white, charcoal and bone black, a little yellowbrown ochre
grey (naked eye: bluish grey) reddish brownish-red
CS EDX
Groen
CS EDX CS EDX
Groen Groen
grey
CS EDX
Groen
medium rich layer of iron oxide, bone black, a little lead white and chalk
cross-section energy dispersive X-ray analysis X-ray diffraction analysis X-ray fluorescence emission spectral analysis
670
671