A study of “The Portrait of F.P. Makerovsky in a Masquerade Costume” by Dmitry Levitsky from the collection of the State Tretyakov Gallery

Simonenko, Nikolay P.; Solovey, Valentin R.; Shumikhin, Kirill V.; Lizunova, Anna A.; Lisovskii, Stepan V.; Liubavskaya, Elena A.; Seregina, Tatyana V.; Basova, Irina G.; Dyakonova, Yulia B.; Simonenko, Tatiana L.; Simonenko, Elizaveta P.; Volkov, Ivan A.; Khalturin, Yulian A.; Ivanov, Viktor V.

doi:10.1186/s40494-020-0351-1

Heritage Science

Table 2 The results of elemental microanalysis (EDX) of cross-sections of the studied samples (with the exception of carbon and oxygen. in at.%)

From: A study of “The Portrait of F.P. Makerovsky in a Masquerade Costume” by Dmitry Levitsky from the collection of the State Tretyakov Gallery

Layer	Na	Mg	Al	Si	P	S	Cl	K	Ca	Ti	Mn	Fe	Cu	Sn	As	Sb	Pb
Sample 1
Green			7.700	36.884				3.777	7.880			6.414					37.345
Brown			10.861						12.799	0.821		10.669					64.851
Light ground			5.867						12.336	0.200		4.227					77.369
Dark ground	1.348		19.174	47.291			0.445	2.799	4.479	1.438		19.012			0.367		3.648
Inclusions (sample 1)
Green			7.463	17.347				2.704	29.095	0.767		6.047					36.576
Light ground										0.200							99.800
Dark ground									99.881	0.119
				3.048						0.250		5.269					91.433
				99.997						0.003
Sample 2
Green	5.010	2.280	17.071	36.539				5.718	3.095			12.739	0.031				14.897
Dark grey + light grey			12.504	26.752				4.112	7.134			12.376					37.121
Ground	1.482	1.406	24.626	54.306				2.506	0.591	0.813		11.830			0.072		2.368
Inclusions (sample 2)
Green			5.041	70.004				5.137	2.541			3.927				3.820	9.530
Green			20.326	36.021				9.549	3.232			11.538					19.335
Dark grey + light grey			11.264	18.973					9.209			13.755			0.004		46.795
Ground			19.183	47.844				2.326	0.715	13.393		14.696					1.843
			27.711	50.804				2.389	0.629	0.989		14.088					3.392
				99.671								0.329
Sample 3
Green			7.692	27.692					6.154		3.077	20.000					35.385
Brown		1.832	5.846	25.305	2.007			1.396	7.766		5.236	47.033					3.578
Light inter-layer in the ground			24.469	53.761				2.522	1.195	0.575		15.044			0.265		2.168
Ground			28.303	48.779				2.630	1.064	0.751		15.466			0.564		2.442
Inclusions (sample 3)
Green					6.894									85.356			7.750
Brown				9.060					5.522		9.146	72.821					3.451
									96.715			3.285
			1.789	84.102					0.929		1.239	10.943					0.998
Ground				99.471								0.529
Ground			24.068	56.170				1.920	0.515			12.791			0.375		4.160
Sample 4
Brown	1.398		10.208	24.160	10.124		0.709	0.653	14.044			28.315			2.886		7.547
Ground	1.436		24.846	51.625				2.850	1.164	0.837		15.102			0.131		1.617
Inclusions (sample 4)
Brown				89.988	0.526				1.190			7.620			0.244		0.432
			1.119	2.867					93.846			2.168
	3.430	2.844	1.806	3.740	30.462		1.828		39.866			8.234			0.645		7.145
Ground	0.438	0.444	3.074	92.982		0.401	0.182	0.328	0.217	0.417		1.516
			13.527	18.708	2.993			0.587				64.185
			12.656	22.821	3.070			1.390	3.649	24.645		28.468					2.346

The numbers in italics refer to elements whose content is more than 15%

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