In the '60s, experts dismissed this as a fake Rembrandt. Turns out, it's the real deal

2026-03-03 - 15:33

"I get maybe two emails a week with someone who thinks they have a Rembrandt painting. And of course, most often, 99 per cent of the time, they don't," says Jonathan Bikker, the Rijksmuseum's curator of 17th century Dutch paintings. "But this painting was different."