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Article: Rembrandt or not? (Rembrandt Research Project attempts to authenticate certain works)
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- Art in America
- Article date:
- January 1, 1993
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Following in the footsteps of the Rembrandt Research Project, the recent traveling Rembrandt exhibition presented a radically revised view of the artist's oeuvre. While this major show appeared at London's National Gallery, the Wallace Collection mounted its own Rembrandt exhibition, also reflecting the revisionist stance of the RRP. Below, a partisan commentary on Rembrandt and a discussion of the ongoing attempt to establish an "authentic" corpus of his works.
The London spring was Rembrandt-colored. And what colors! Not the gravy browns, dull reds and monotonous golds which a quarter of a century of poor color reproductions, and school works masquerading as ...