When Portrait Of A Young Woman was first donated to the Allentown Art Museum in 1961, it was believed to be an original Rembrandt. A decade later, it was declared a forgery — but it may actually be authentic after all.
When a painting titled Portrait of a Young Woman was bequeathed to the Allentown Art Museum in Pennsylvania in 1961, it was thought to be an original artwork by the famed Rembrandt van Rijn. But about a decade later, experts concluded that the painting had most likely been done by one of his assistants or students instead.
The painting remained under the museum’s custody and was credited under “Studio of Rembrandt” since experts agreed the painting had been created in the painter’s studio. But the artist responsible for it has finally been revealed to be Rembrandt himself after all.
As Artnet News reports, the shocking discovery has come nearly 50 years after the 388-year-old artwork was cast as inauthentic by experts. The true revelation was discovered only after the painting was sent to New York University for conservation and cleaning…