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Scholar Attributes Long-Suspected ‘Workshop Copy’ to Rembrandt

Scholar Attributes Long-Suspected ‘Workshop Copy’ to Rembrandt

Published by Jenni Sidey

A painting long thought to be a “workshop copy” of a cherished Rembrandt in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago has been attributed to Rembrandt himself by a scholar with significant credit to his claim. As reported by the Guardian, Gary Schwartz, who has written books on Rembrandt and Dutch painting and will deliver a talk on Monday at the National Gallery in London, said a canvas in a private collection in the UK is in fact a Rembrandt in the same way as Old Man with a Gold Chain (1631) at the Art Institute. Both of the works (the former on panel, as opposed to the canvas owned by collector Francis Newman) share the same title and were brought together for a display that opened late last year at the museum in Chicago. The canvas has been considered a replica copy “likely by one of the students in [Rembrandt’s] workshop for the competitive Amsterdam art market,” according to the Art Institute. Related Articles But Schwartz told the Guardian: “If Rembrandt had a customer …

Download 60,000 Works of Art from the National Gallery, Including Masterpieces by Van Gogh, Gauguin, Rembrandt & More

Download 60,000 Works of Art from the National Gallery, Including Masterpieces by Van Gogh, Gauguin, Rembrandt & More

Published by José Betancourt

As a young ama­teur painter and future art school dropout, I fre­quent­ly found myself haunt­ed by the faces of two artists, that famous­ly odd cou­ple from my favorite art his­to­ry novelization—and Kirk Dou­glas role and Iggy Pop song—Lust for Life. Vin­cent van Gogh and Paul Gau­guin, above and below respec­tive­ly, the tor­ment­ed Dutch fanat­ic and burly French bully—how, I still won­der, could such a pair have ever co-exist­ed, how­ev­er briefly? How could such beau­ti­ful­ly skewed visions of life have exist­ed at all? Van Gogh and Gauguin’s sev­er­al self-por­traits still inspire won­der. My younger self had the lux­u­ry of see­ing these par­tic­u­lar two up close and in per­son at the Nation­al Gallery of Art in Wash­ing­ton, DC: Van Gogh’s gaunt and pierc­ing vis­age, Gauguin’s sneer­ing self-par­o­dy. Now, thanks to the won­ders of dig­i­tal tech­nol­o­gy, my old­er self, and yours, can view and down­load high-res­o­lu­tion pho­tos of both paint­ings, and over 60,000 more from the museum’s vast hold­ings, through NGA Images, “a repos­i­to­ry of dig­i­tal images of the col­lec­tions of the Nation­al Gallery of Art.” There you’ll …

How the Book of Esther echoes through 17th-century Netherlands to this day

How the Book of Esther echoes through 17th-century Netherlands to this day

Published by Sam Flores

RALEIGH, N.C. (RNS) — As the United States and Israel began pummeling Iran with airstrikes Saturday (Feb. 28), Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu offered a biblical analogy to explain his motives for going to war. “Twenty-five-hundred years ago, in ancient Persia, a tyrant rose against us with the very same goal, to utterly destroy our people,” Netanyahu said in a statement, referring to the story from the biblical Book of Esther, which takes place in Susa, or Shushan, then the capital of the ancient Persian empire, now Iran. Then, as now, he said, “this evil regime will fall.” It was a timely statement. Jews read the Book of Esther during the holiday of Purim, which begins Monday evening (March 2), recounting the heroine’s resilience and determination to save her people from the king’s evil adviser, Haman. Through the years, Jewish girls have dressed up as Esther during the boisterous holiday. But Netanyahu was not the first to tie present-day battles to the Book of Esther. Since its inclusion in the Hebrew Bible, the story — …

Rembrandt Painting Emerges After Going Unseen for Years: Rijksmuseum

Rembrandt Painting Emerges After Going Unseen for Years: Rijksmuseum

Published by José Betancourt

A painting that disappeared from view during the 1960s and hasn’t been seen by the public since then is a bona fide Rembrandt, Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum said on Monday. Titled Vision of Zacharias in the Temple, the painting was produced in 1633 and was initially discredited by scholars well-versed in Rembrandt’s oeuvre. But following a two-year study of the paint used to make the work, experts with the Rijksmuseum found that it was, in fact, by the Dutch Old Master. It is a surprising revelation, and one that is significant, given that news of the attribution was announced by the museum that holds The Night Watch (1642), one of Rembrandt’s masterpieces. Related Articles Vision of Zacharias in the Temple predates The Night Watch by about nine years, placing the former work in the early stages of Rembrandt’s career. It depicts Zacharias, a Jewish priest who, in the New Testament, is visited by the Archangel Gabriel and told that he will bear a son. In typical fashion for Rembrandt, Vision of Zacharias in the Temple is dominated …

Museum confirms lost painting is genuine 1633 Rembrandt

Museum confirms lost painting is genuine 1633 Rembrandt

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter A painting previously doubted has been definitively authenticated as a genuine Rembrandt, marking its first public display in decades at the Netherlands’ Rijksmuseum. Following a meticulous two-year investigation, researchers at the prestigious museum confirmed “Vision of Zacharias in the Temple” was indeed painted by the Dutch master. The work, on long-term loan from an anonymous private collector, was rigorously compared with other Rembrandt pieces from the same period. Experts concluded that Rembrandt van Rijn created the artwork in 1633, during his late twenties. It depicts the biblical moment when the high priest Zacharias, startled, receives news from the archangel Gabriel that he and his elderly wife will conceive a son, John the Baptist. Notably, Rembrandt chose not to paint Gabriel directly, instead signalling his divine presence through a striking beam of light entering from the upper right corner. Painting conservator Petria …

35 Rembrandt Etchings Re-Discovered in the Netherlands

35 Rembrandt Etchings Re-Discovered in the Netherlands

Published by Jenni Sidey

Many people around the world were cooped up at home during the COVID-19 pandemic, but few had the same good fortune as Charlotte Meyer, who spent some of her unexpected downtime after a house move going through a folder of works on paper that her late grandfather had handed down to her. She shared her findings with the Rembrandt House in Amsterdam, who confirmed that the 35 etchings are in fact by the Dutch Old Master. According to Omroep, the Netherlands Public Broadcasting network, the folder had been stored in a drawer in the family home in Zutphen, a town in the eastern part of the Netherlands, for many years. Meyer’s grandfather acquired them between 1900 and 1920. Related Articles At the time, Meyer told Omroep, “nobody was interesting in etching … It was nothing special. For only a few guilders, my grandfather bought 35 different copies.” Meyer has not revealed the value of her collection. However, from 2023-25, Christie’s London sold a trove of Rembrandt prints collected by the late Sam Josefowitz. The top …

No, Gardner Museum’s Stolen Rembrandt Is Not in the Epstein Files

No, Gardner Museum’s Stolen Rembrandt Is Not in the Epstein Files

Published by José Betancourt

Wouldn’t it be fascinating if one of the greatest museum heists of all time was somehow associated with one of the most sordid crime rings in recent history? And wouldn’t it be great if you could get a piece of the $10 million reward? That was the prospect presented by a video by Instagrammer Emily Kaplan (whose handle is @newsnotnoise and whose slogan is “Truth > Agenda”), in which she says that two artworks stolen decades ago from Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum show up in a tax estate document released by the U.S. Justice Department as part of the millions of files related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Related Articles “I think I just solved the biggest art heist in the world using the Epstein files,” says Kaplan, apparently not one who is given to understatement (she doesn’t specify who robbed the museum or where the artworks are, but, you know, details!). At the time of publication, the video had earned nearly 38,000 likes and been reposted more than 2,400 times and shared …

Rembrandt Lion Drawing Sells for .8 Million at Sotheby’s

Rembrandt Lion Drawing Sells for $17.8 Million at Sotheby’s

Published by Jenni Sidey

After a world tour that saw Rembrandt van Rijn’s Young Lion Resting (circa 1638-42) travel to Paris, Abu Dhabi, Tokyo, and New York, it finally sold for a record $17.86 million on Wednesday (all quoted prices include fees). That’s the highest price ever paid for a drawing by the Dutch master. While the result fell short of the overall work-on-paper auction record—$48 million for Raphael’s Head of an Apostle (circa 1519)—it far surpassed the previous Rembrandt drawing record of $3.7 million for Windmill de Smeerpot, Amsterdam (circa 1649-52). All proceeds from Young Lion Resting will go to Panthera, the wild cat conservation charity founded by the work’s co-seller, American French precious metals mogul Thomas Kaplan. Related Articles The sale was part of Sotheby’s “Master Works on Paper from Five Centuries” auction in New York, which totaled $19.8 million, the house’s highest-ever result for a sale of Old Master drawings. Young Lion Resting was offered from The Leiden Collection, a 220-strong trove of 17th-century Dutch Golden Age art that Kaplan and his wife, Daphne, have collected …

Rembrandt Drawing Breaks Auction Record: Morning Links

Rembrandt Drawing Breaks Auction Record: Morning Links

Published by Jenni Sidey

To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. THE HEADLINES FALLEN CROWN. For the first time since the brazen theft of French crown jewels, the Louvre has publicly shared images of Empress Eugénie’s crown, which was badly crushed by thieves who tried but failed to make off with it. Investigators determined that the robbers jammed the crown through a narrow opening they had cut in the jewel display case using an angle grinder and then dropped the headpiece as they fled, reports ARTnews. In a statement, the museum said the crown, with its curved waves of golden eagles and leaf-like diamond and emerald palmettes, is mostly intact. As a result, restorers overseen by an expert committee will be able to repair it “without having to resort to reconstitution or restitution.” The other stolen crown jewels, estimated to be worth some $102 million, have not been found to date.   Related Articles LOST & FOUND. Spanish investigators have recovered a 1908 painting by Joaquín Sorolla and two others by José María Carbonero, which had …