Recently Rembrandt (Leida 1606- Amsterdam 1669), the great Dutch painter and carver, has been talked about with regard to some clamorous news. Indeed, recently the authorship of a painting of which nothing was known, has been attributed to him, and the discovery seems to have happened in a curious way. The existence of the painting was already known of, thanks to a reproduction dating from around 1800, but nothing was known about its history and preservation until now.
The work came to light in October 2007, when an English family handed the painting over to Moore Allen & Innocent to auction it, and back then the first questions and perplexities about the possible authorship of the work started being raised.