Horadam Aquarell - Sögulegar litir - Cassler brown

Cassler brown - 15 ml (14 675 006) 

• Warm, semi-transparent brown tone from brown coal (NBr8)
• Good lightfastness
• Already known in the 16th century, widespread from the 17th to 19th centuries
• Popular pigment until the 1960s
• Replaced since the 1970s by more resistant, similarly glazing pigments
• Hardly available anymore in art supplies
• Appreciated by van Dyck, Rembrandt, Rubens
• Recognisable in historical paintings as a warm, transparent brown, often mixed with gold ochre