By Charlotte Van Campenhout<\/p>\n
AMSTERDAM, March 2 (Reuters) – Researchers at the Netherlands’ Rijksmuseum have authenticated as genuine a Rembrandt painting that will be on public display \u200con Wednesday for the first time in decades.<\/p>\n
Over a two\u2011year investigation, the \u200cresearchers compared the “Vision of Zacharias in the Temple” with other Rembrandt works from the same period. It is \u200bon a long-term loan to the museum from an anonymous private collector.<\/p>\n
The researchers concluded Rembrandt van Rijn painted it in 1633 when he was in his late twenties.<\/p>\n
The painting depicts the biblical moment when the startled high priest Zacharias learns from archangel Gabriel that, \u200cdespite their advanced age, he \u2060and his wife will have a son, John the Baptist. Rembrandt did not paint Gabriel, instead using light entering from the upper right \u2060corner to signal his presence.<\/p>\n
CHARACTERISTIC OF REMBRANDT’S TECHNIQUE<\/p>\n
Painting conservator Petria Noble said the depiction of light, using thick layers of paint, a technique known as impasto, was characteristic of Rembrandt \u200bin his \u200blater work as well as in this one.<\/p>\n
Until \u200b1960, the painting was considered a \u200cRembrandt but it was then removed from his oeuvre, which art specialists have said was a decision based on less advanced techniques than are now available.<\/p>\n
The current owner inherited the painting from his father who bought it in 1961 when it disappeared from public view.<\/p>\n
Apart from carrying out analysis of materials and assessments of the work’s overall \u200cquality, the museum’s researchers confirmed the signature on \u200bthe painting was original, and dendrochronological tests, used to \u200bdate wood, verified that the 1633 \u200bdate is accurate.<\/p>\n
Jonathan Bikker, curator at the Rijksmuseum, said the insurance \u200cpolicy will definitely increase now the painting \u200bis confirmed to \u200bbe a Rembrandt, but did not specify how much it was worth.<\/p>\n
“It’s wonderful that people can now learn more about the young Rembrandt \u2013 he created this very \u200bpoignant work shortly after \u200cmoving from Leiden to Amsterdam. It is a beautiful example of the unique \u200bway Rembrandt depicts stories,” Taco Dibbits, director of the Rijksmuseum, said.<\/p>\n
(Reporting by \u200bCharlotte Van Campenhout; editing by Barbara Lewis)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Charlotte Van Campenhout AMSTERDAM, March 2 (Reuters) – Researchers at the Netherlands’ Rijksmuseum have authenticated as genuine…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30823,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[199,18435,200,18436,17275,18396,18434],"class_list":{"0":"post-30822","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-amsterdam","8":"tag-amsterdam","9":"tag-archangel-gabriel","10":"tag-netherlands","11":"tag-public-display","12":"tag-rembrandt-van-rijn","13":"tag-rijksmuseum","14":"tag-zacharias-in-the-temple"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}