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NG 4189 was engraved as the work of Rembrandt during his lifetime, but it has subsequently been argued that its meticulous detail suggests that it was either a collaboration between Rembrandt and his Leiden pupil Gerrit Dou, or by Dou alone. Comparisons with the work of Rembrandt and Dou have made it clear that the picture is, in fact, an authentic work by Rembrandt painted in about 1630 in Leiden before his move to Amsterdam. Recent cleaning has revealed areas of the background and skilful treatment of detail (formerly obscured by discoloured varnish), which also support the attribution to Rembrandt himself.
Possibly in the collection of the Unshod Carmelites at the Convent of San Hermenegildo, Madrid, by 1776; certainly in the John Bell sale, North Park, Glasgow, 1881; bought from Denis Elliot Watson, 1926.
Bruyn 1982-9, I, pp. 461-6, no. C3
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