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A Corpus of Rembrandt Paintings V (The Small-Scale History Paintings). van de Wetering, Ernst (Ed.). Springer. 2010. ISBN 978-1-4020-4607-0. A Corpus of Rembrandt Paintings VI: Rembrandt’s Paintings Revisited – A Complete Survey. Ernst van de Wetering. Springer. 2014. ISBN 978-9-4017-9173-1.
Rembrandt portrays the Holy Family as a typical family of Amsterdam in his day. In the foreground Jesus is asleep in the same style of wicker crib that can be seen in period paintings of mothers with babies by Pieter de Hooch. Mary looks up from her book to take a peek at the sleeping child under the crib curtain (Dutch: klamboe).
Inscribed Rembrandt f. 1641 Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery: c. 1639-1641?? Musée du Louvre, Paris: The drawing is related to the painting W47 : Seated Old Woman, Half-length: c. 1641?? Courtauld Gallery, London: The drawing is related to the painting W173 : A Man Helping a Rider to Mount a Horse: c. 1641: Pen: 14.2 x 14.9 cm ...
"The person who bought the painting for $1.4 million already got a great bargain," Mark Winter, an authentication expert, tells the Times. "We don't discover new paintings by Rembrandt every day."
The woman in the background, who either represents Mary or Anna the Prophetess, was probably added after artist's death by an unknown painter working in Rembrandt's workshop. [2] [3] Rembrandt had painted the same motif at least twice before: in Simeon and Anna in the Temple, [4] [5] and in Simeon's Song of Praise. [6] [7]
A painting valued at $15,000 just two years ago has fetched more than 900 times as much after being identified as the work of Dutch master Rembrandt. A painting valued at $15,000 turned out to be ...