Pennsylvania Museum Discovers That It Owns an Authentic Rembrandt Painting

Since the 1970s, the Allentown Art Museum in Pennsylvania has displayed Portrait of a Young Woman, a 1632 portrait long attributed to studio assistants in Rembrandt’s workshop. Around two years ago the painting was sent for a routine cleaning to New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts, where conservationists discovered, hidden beneath layers of overpainting and thick varnish, traces of the Dutch Master’s vivid brushwork. X-ray, infrared, and electron microscopy c