Painting attributed to Rembrandt on show
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A painting newly attributed to Dutch Golden Age master Rembrandt van Rijn went on display recently in an Amsterdam museum.
The Hermitage Amsterdam museum called it the first unknown Rembrandt to surface in 44 years.
The unsigned, undated 17th-century portrait of a young man resplendent in a black cape and white lace ruff, at the time attributed to an unknown member of Rembrandt’s circle, caught the eye of Amsterdam art dealer Jan Six when an auction catalog plopped onto his gallery’s doormat in 2016. Six jumped on a plane to London to look at the painting, compared it with another Rembrandt portrait hanging in the city’s National Gallery and bought it for what now looks like a modest US$189,000.
“There’s one fantastic flap of lace and there’s one curved edge and it’s so fantastic — it’s such a depiction of space — that you really want to put your finger on it,” Six said. “And the ability to get there to that end result, in my view and in many other experts’ views, only Rembrandt ever reached that level.”
After buying the work, he brought it home and then spent months analyzing it and consulting with a dozen experts who have now agreed with his view that it is a previously unknown work by Rembrandt.
The painting is on show for a month at the Hermitage Amsterdam. Six took a selfie with his find after workers put it in a frame and hung it on a wall.
(AP)
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