Table 1 Overview of all sampled paintings

Peasants Dancing at an Inn

Bh

1646–48

Panel

38.5 × 56.5

0553

5

Mauritshuis

1. Chalk

2. Lead white, chalk, red earth, fine black

The Tooth-Puller

Tt

1651

Canvas

32.5 × 26.7

0165

32

Mauritshuis

1. Chalk, lead white, umber, fine black

2. Chalk, lead white, umber, fine black

3. Chalk, lead white, umber, fine black

The Death of Ananias

An

1651

Panel

45.7 × 37.8

n/a

33

Matthiesen gallery London

1. Chalk

2. Chalk, lead white, umber, red earth, coarse black, clay particles

The Village Wedding

Db

1653

Canvas

64 × 81

2314

56

Boijmans van Beuningen

1. Chalk, lead white, umber

Village Fair

Dk

1650–51

Panel

47.2 × 66

0664

81

Mauritshuis

1. Chalk

2. Lead white, orange earth, charcoal black, umber

The Fortune Teller

Wz

1650–54

Canvas

73 × 59.3

1111

B52

Mauritshuis

1. Chalk, lead white, umber, fine black

The Quack

Kz

1650–60

Panel

37.5 × 52

sk-a-387

89

Rijksmuseum Amsterdam

1. Chalk

2. Lead white, umber

Adolf en Catharina Croeser, known as ‘The Burgomaster of Delft and his Daughter’

Bd

1655

Canvas

106 × 96

sk-a-4981

78

Rijksmuseum Amsterdam

1. Chalk, lead white, umber

The Baker Arent Oostwaard and his wife, Catharina Keizerswaard

Bo

1658

Panel

37.7 × 31.5

sk-a-390

102

Rijksmuseum Amsterdam

1. Chalk

2. Lead white, umber, quartz

Portrait of Jacoba Maria van Wassenaer (1654–1683), known as ‘The Poultry Yard’

Hh

1660

Canvas

106.6 × 80.8

0166

113

Mauritshuis

1. Lead white, yellow earth, red earth, orange earth, fine black, clay particles, dolomite particles

2. Lead white, orange earth, red earth, umber, fine black, coarse black, clay particles, dolomite particles

3. Lead white, yellow, orange and red earth, charcoal black, dolomite particles

The Oyster meal

Om

1660

Canvas

102.8 × 133.9

n/a

114

Private collection

1. Clay: red iron particles, umber, silicates and titanium particles in matrix of aluminum, silicium, potassium, iron

Girl Eating Oysters

Oe

1658–60

Panel

20.5 × 14.5

0818

92

Mauritshuis

1. Chalk

2. Lead white, umber, chalk

‘Easy come, easy go’

Sg

1661

Canvas

104 × 79

2527 (OK)

143

Boijmans van Beuningen

1. Chalk, lead white, umber, bone black, quartz

2. Lead white, fine black, orange earth, chalk

A Woman at her Toilet

Mt

1663

Panel

65.8 × 53

RCIN 404804

178

Royal Collection Trust

1. Chalk

2. Lead white, yellow earth, brown earth, umber, chalk

The Dancing Couple

Dc

1663

Canvas

102.5 × 142.5

1942.9.81

180

National Gallery of Art Washington

1. Chalk, red earth, yellow earth, umber, charcoal black, bone black, lead white

2. Lead white, charcoal black, chalk, red earth

The Alchemist

Al

1668

Canvas

106 × 82

n/a

249A

Private collection

1. Charcoal black, bone black, umber, red and brown earth, lead white, chalk, smalt, green earth, clay particles

2. Lead white, yellow earth, red earth, bone black, charcoal black, chalk, smalt, yellow and red lake

3. Lead white, bone black, yellow earth, green earth

The Merry Family

Vh

1668

Canvas

110.5 × 141

sk-c-229

295

Rijksmuseum Amsterdam

1. Yellow, orange and red earth, fine black, chalk, copper particles, smalt, quartz, clay particles, organic brown, umber, vivianite, vermillion, lead tin yellow

The Sick Girl

Zm

ca. 1660

Panel

58 × 46.5

0167

203

Mauritshuis

1. Chalk

2. Lead white, chalk, red earth, umber

The Doctor’s Visit

Do

1665–68

Panel

60.5 × 48.5

0168

318

Mauritshuis

1. Chalk

2. Yellow and brown earth, lead white, chalk, charcoal black, smalt, copper particles

A twelfth night feast: ‘The King Drinks’

Kd

ca. 1661

Panel

40.4 × 54.5

RCIN 407489

149

Royal Collection Trust

1. Chalk

2. Lead white, red earth, umber, chalk, clay particles

Woman Playing the Cittern

Sv

ca. 1662

Panel

31 × 27.5

0779

132

Mauritshuis

1. Chalk

2. Lead white, chalk, yellow and brown earth, umber, fine black, red lead

‘As the Old Sing, So Pipe the Young’

Zo

1663–65

Canvas

84 × 92.5

0169

200

Mauritshuis

1. Chalk

2. Lead white, chalk, umber, fine black

The Sick Woman

Zv

1663–66

Canvas

76 × 63.5

sk-c-230

259

Rijksmuseum Amsterdam

1. Chalk, yellow earth, brown earth, umber, fine black

The Life of Man

Lm

ca. 1665

Canvas

68.2 × 82

0170

261

Mauritshuis

1. Chalk, red earth, umber, coarse black, clay particles

2. Chalk, read earth, umber, coarse black

3. Lead white, yellow earth, umber, fine black, chalk

Interior of a Tavern, with Cardplayers and a Violin Player

Hv

ca. 1665

Canvas

81.9 × 70.6

RCIN 405825

278

Royal Collection Trust

1. Clay: red iron particles, umber, silicates and titanium particles in matrix of aluminum, silicium, potassium, iron mixed with chalk, and yellow earth. In tabel: yellow earth, umber, chalk, dolomite, quartz, clay particles

‘The Caudle makers’

Km

1665–70

Panel

41 × 31.5

0920

95

Mauritshuis

1. Chalk

2. Lead white, chalk, yellow earth, umber, fine black

The Marriage of Tobias and Sarah

Hu

ca. 1667

Canvas

131 × 172

313

281

Herzog Anton Ullrich Museum Braunschweig

1. Lead white, chalk, red earth, charcoal black, black shale, clay particles, gypsum, barium sulfate particles

Cardplayers in a Brothel

Kb

1663–65

Panel

38 × 51

n/a

B-A562

Private Collection

1. Chalk, gypsum

2. Lead white, red earth, brown earth, umber, chalk

‘As the Old Sing, So Pipe the Young’

Ss

1668–70

Canvas

134 × 163

0742

201

Mauritshuis

1. Lead white, lead tin yellow, umber, red earth, chalk, bone black, red and yellow lake, vermillion, smalt, clay particles, quartz

Moses and the Pharaoh’s Crown

Mk

ca. 1670

Canvas

86 × 72

1167

328

Mauritshuis

1. Chalk, lead white, red earth, yellow earth, umber, bone black, clay particles

2. Lead white, smalt, red earth

3. Lead white, red earth, yellow earth, umber, bone black, yellow lake, clay particles

The Marriage of Tobias and Sarah

Ts

1667–72

Canvas

80 × 103.2

n/a

309

Private Collection

1. Chalk, quartz, fine black, yellow earth, red earth, dolomite particles, clay particles

2. Lead white, chalk, red lead, fine black, yellow earth, red earth, quartz

3. Lead white, fine black, yellow earth, red earth, quartz

Sacrifice of Iphigenia

Oi

1671

Canvas

135 × 173

JS112

342

Leiden Collection

1. Lead white, chalk, red earth, umber, clay particles

Fighting Cardplayers (“Het Geweldig Krakeel”)

Gk

1671

Panel

51.7 × 71.2

NK2167

345

Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands

1. Chalk

2. Yellow earth, umber, lead white, chalk, clay particles, quartz

Peasant Wedding

Bb

1672

Panel

38.5 × 50

sk-a-388

349

Rijksmuseum Amsterdam

1. Chalk

2. Lead white, yellow earth, umber, chalk

A Village Revel

Hm

1672–3

Canvas

110.4 × 147

RCIN 405611

354

Royal Collection Trust

1. Chalk, red earth, gypsum

2. Red earth, lead white, chalk, umber, clay particles

Christ Expelling the Traders from the Temple

Cw

1675

Canvas

79.5 × 109

B667

363

Museum de Lakenhal, Leiden

1. Lead white, umber, red earth, yellow earth, bone black, chalk, quartz, clay particles, smalt, vermillion

Merrymaking in a tavern with a couple dancing

Hd

ca. 1670

Canvas

61.7 × 75.1

RCIN 404813

277

Royal Collection Trust

1. Chalk, yellow earth, organic brown

‘A Pig Belongs in the Sty’

Wv

1674–78

Canvas

86 × 72

0736

362

Mauritshuis

1. Chalk, lead white, red earth, yellow earth, umber, fine black, bone black

The Mocking of Samson

Si

1675–76

Canvas

65 × 82

338

365

Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen

1. Lead white, yellow, orange, red and brown earth, dolomite particles, clay particles

2. Lead white, fine black, brown earth, umber, red lead, chalk