publication . Article . Other literature type . 2014

Old traces, read anew – ‘The Reading Hermit’ painting in the light of X-ray fluorescence

Name: Old traces, read anew – ‘The Reading Hermit’ painting in the light of X-ray fluorescence
Keywords: Analytical Chemistry, Spectroscopy, 540 Chemie und zugeordnete Wissenschaften

B. Schröder-Smeibidl; Christian Seim; C. Laurenze-Landsberg; Ioanna Mantouvalou; Birgit Kanngießer; C. de Boer;

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Published: 28 Apr 2014 Journal: Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry, volume 29, page 1,354 (issn: 0267-9477, eissn: 1364-5544,

Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)

Country: Germany

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Abstract

There exist several very similar looking versions of the painting ‘The Reading Hermit’, all allegedly painted by Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (approx. in ∼1630 A.D., Leiden). The classification of Rembrandt's paintings, which were produced by Rembrandt himself, in his academy by his students and the ones being mere copies is a crucial and difficult task. We gathered background evidence and performed elemental analyses by non-destructive micro-X-ray fluorescence (micro-XRF) in order to elucidate the painting's provenance. Elemental distributions of Ca, Mn, Fe and Cu show that the painting was presumably changed during the painting process, which indicates, toge...

doi: 10.1039/c3ja50301a , 10.14279/depositonce-5195

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free text keywords: Analytical Chemistry, Spectroscopy, 540 Chemie und zugeordnete Wissenschaften, X-ray fluorescence, Art history, Painting, Art, media_common.quotation_subject, media_common, ddc:540

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