The Primer of Claude of France
Painting with gold
Artists' Techniques
Gold paint enriches many draperies, where it is shaded in pink with an organic colourant and sometimes in blue with indigo.
Gold highlighting in the 'camaïeu d'or' technique has been used for blue and pink drapery folds and for other details.
Joseph seeks Mary’s forgiveness; Joseph and Mary denied lodging in Bethlehem; Nativity
The ochre-coloured clothing of the man refusing Mary and Joseph lodging, in the lower right scene, was painted with ‘artificial orpiment’, an unusual pigment which the artist utilised alongside the more common lead-tin yellow.