An Elderly Woman Rembrandt

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The authors speculated that the painting ‘Portrait of an Elderly Woman in a White Bonnet’ was not a painting of Rembrandt’s by mentioning that it missed or deviated from his style – inconsistent dress, inappropriate mix of light and shadow, and glued wood. The professor, on the other hand asserts that it Rembrandt’s painting except that some people had worked on it to improve the grandeur of the painting.

Firstly, the reading mentions that the woman (looked like servant as per the reading) in the painting wore a luxurious collar which was not consistent with her remaining dressing style and author claims that Rembrandt wouldn’t entertain such inconsistencies in his painting. Clarifying the above statement, the professor says the collar was

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