Lead-tin yellow

Titian, Bacchus and Ariadne, 1523
Rembrandt van Rijn, Belshazzar's Feast, 1635
Johannes Vermeer, The Milkmaid, 1657-58

Lead-tin yellow is a yellow pigment, of historical importance in oil painting,[1] sometimes called the "Yellow of the Old Masters" because of the frequency with which it was used by those famous painters.[2][3]

  1. ^ "Lead-Tin Yellow". ColourLex. Retrieved 2019-10-05.
  2. ^ American Artist. Watson-Guptill Publications. 2004.
  3. ^ St. Clair, Kassia (2016). The Secret Lives of Colour. London: John Murray. pp. 69–70. ISBN 978-1-4736-3081-9. OCLC 936144129.