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...paintings turned out to be Dutch Master Jan Vermeer's The Artist in His Studio and Venetian Jacopo Tintoretto's Susanna and the Elders. Last week Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum found that New Yorkers' tastes were just about the same-with one difference: Rembrandt van Rijn's dark and pensive Portrait of the Artist, painted when he was 46, had moved into second place, pushed Tintoretto's plump, golden-haired Susanna into third...
Janine and Jean made their first facsimile a year and a half ago; since then they have reproduced a new original each month. In 1950 they expect to work back through the impressionists, and afterwards tackle Rembrandt, whose thick underpainting overlaid with transparent oil glazes will be particularly hard to simulate. Old masters, they point out, have limited lifetimes. "By making facsimiles before [the originals] deteriorate and then reproducing the facsimiles we can prolong their lifetimes indefinitely...
...bankrupt old Painter Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn, inspired by this scene from the Gospels, painted his famous St. Peter Denying Christ. Last week Americans, studying at first hand the burnished faces of servant woman and erring Peter, could still warm themselves before the glowing picture...
Insured for $500,000, the masterpiece had made the trip from Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum to be part of the most impressive Rembrandt show to be held in the U.S. in more than 15 years. It had taken officials of Manhattan's Wildenstein gallery more than a year to organize the show; it was that hard to dislodge Rembrandts from their home museums...
...Young Man (1631), when he was Amsterdam's most fashionable artist-about-town, to Lucretia, his pensive recollection of his long-dead mistress Hendrickje Stoffels, finished in 1666, when he had gained the resigned wisdom of an aging, ruined man waiting for death. It was part of Rembrandt's misfortune that such later pictures had left the stolid burghers of Amsterdam cold. Last week they helped to make the show at the Wildenstein the warmest in Manhattan...