Word: friedsam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...copy, formerly in the Manhattan collection of Michael Friedsam, had been "authenticated" by scholars and repeatedly exhibited as genuine. For years the original was tucked out of sight at Dumbarton Oaks, Robert Woods Bliss's mansion in Washington, D.C. But after it was willed to Harvard in 1940, it was spotted by Harvard's Jakob Rosenberg, topflight Rembrandt scholar. "A comparison of the two heads shows at once how much of the plastic quality is lost [in the copy] by a manipulation of the brush that imitates Rembrandt's strokes but loses control of their modeling function...