Christ and the Woman of Samaria: Detail of the woman

Detail of the woman ; Inscribed lower center, on step: Rembrandt. / f 1655. In 1968 Horst Gerson accepted this as an autograph work of Rembrandt. Hubert von Sonnenburg, conservator at The Metropolitan Museum of Art also believes this painting to be a genuine Rembrandt. However, Walter Liedtke, curator at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, disagrees with this attribution, and believes the painting to be the work of a Rembrandt follower. (Source: "Rembrandt/Not Rembrandt in The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Aspects of Connoisseurship, Volumes I and II, 1995). The face of the woman is almost entirely... Mehr ...

Verfasser: Rembrandt van Rijn (Follower of)
Dokumenttyp: Image
Schlagwörter: Painting / Baroque / 17th century / Dutch / religious scenes / New Testament / Jesus / women / female figures
Sprache: unknown
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Detail of the woman ; Inscribed lower center, on step: Rembrandt. / f 1655. In 1968 Horst Gerson accepted this as an autograph work of Rembrandt. Hubert von Sonnenburg, conservator at The Metropolitan Museum of Art also believes this painting to be a genuine Rembrandt. However, Walter Liedtke, curator at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, disagrees with this attribution, and believes the painting to be the work of a Rembrandt follower. (Source: "Rembrandt/Not Rembrandt in The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Aspects of Connoisseurship, Volumes I and II, 1995). The face of the woman is almost entirely repainted; her hand and forearm are also reworked.