When Portrait of a Young Woman was first donated to the Allentown Museum of Art in 1961, it was thought to be a Rembrandt original. However, ten years later, it was determined to be a fake, although it may still be authentic.
When the painting, titled Portrait of a Young Woman, was donated to the Allentown Art Museum in Pennsylvania in 1961, it was thought to be an original by the renowned Rembrandt van Rijn. However, about a decade later, experts concluded that it was likely created by one of his assistants or students.
The painting was left in the care of the museum and was attributed to the “Rembrandt Studio” because experts agreed that the work was created in the artist's studio. But it has now become clear that it was in fact created by Rembrandt himself.
As reported by emArtnet News/em, the stunning discovery comes nearly 50 years after the 388-year-old work was deemed inauthentic by experts. The painting's true significance was only revealed after it was sent to New York University for conservation and cleaning.
As restorers worked on the painting—removing layers of thick varnish and oil paint—they began to notice a masterful brushwork that was remarkably similar to Rembrandt's. Could this work actually have been created by the Dutch master himself?
To confirm this, restorers began to examine the painting using modern tools such as infrared reflectography and scanning electron microscopy:
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