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Rembrandt Forgery at Metropolitan Museum is the Daily Pic by Blake Gopnik

Rembrandtism

The Daily Pic, Met Monday Edition: A forger's Rembrandt may carry us back to the master's own day.

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(Metropolitan Museum of Art, Marquand Collection, Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1889)
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This is that rare thing – a Pic I haven’t seen in the flesh, because I couldn’t, because this “Rembrandt” has been declared an 18th-century British fake and therefore consigned to the vaults of the Metropolitan Museum in New York, which has owned and even loved it it since long...

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