Paint and Its Surface
Rogier van der Weyden
The Magdalen Reading
about 1435
Oil on wood, transferred to mahogany, 62.2 × 54.4 cm. The National Gallery, London
Tests on this panel and four related ones found the paint is bound mostly in linseed oil.
- Look at the lips, blended wet into wet, and the fur trim, where the brush dragged through paint that was still wet.
- In one red glaze of the group, pine resin had been added to make the oil clearer.
Concepts
Image: Wikimedia Commons · Public domain (PD-Art)