Rembrandt's painting of the Berlin picture gallery much "tweaking" its owner in the XVIII century
ARTinvestment.RU   06 марта 2015

The experts found that Rembrandt Susanna and the elders (1647) in the eighteenth century changed one of its owners — presumably, it was the artist Joshua Reynolds

Berlin art gallery has announced an amazing discovery: it turned out that one of the masterpieces of the Museum's collection - paintings by Rembrandt Susanna and the elders (1647) was a heavily modified one of its owners in the eighteenth Vice@

told the newspaper BerlinerMorgenpostrestorer Claudia Lorenz-Landsberg (Claudia Laurenze-Landsberg), while studies of the canvas with the help of x-rays on colorful surfaces were detected pigments, not existed in the seventeenth century. Moreover, some fragments are depicted in a style not appropriate creative manner of Rembrandt. The critic found that in the eighteenth century large fragments of paintings was simply written, but whole chunks of the paint layer were erased using solvents and re-written, more typical of that era light Tanah@

This "criminal", naturalise on a masterpiece, was probably none other than the English artist and collector Joshua Reynolds (Joshua Reynolds 1723-1792). It is known that he collected the works of Rembrandt and had a weakness for the techniques of the Old Masters: he often made changes in the existing his collection of paintings. According to the research of the Berlin art gallery, Reynolds owned the painting "Susanna and the elders" just at the time when, presumably, changes have been made. This opinion is shared by experts from the British Research project on the work of Reynolds (Reynolds Research Project).

According to the Director of the Berlin art gallery Bern Lindemann (Bern Lindemann), "it was a radical change. Only the figures correspond to the original picture, painted by Rembrandt." We can only assume what guided Reynolds, making changes. "Obviously, it was assumed that the picture does need improvements," commented Lindemann@

Material compiled by Maria Onuchin, AI

Sources: artnet.com, artinvestment.ru