{"id":104929,"date":"2021-01-21T12:52:17","date_gmt":"2021-01-21T17:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=104929"},"modified":"2021-01-21T12:52:17","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T17:52:17","slug":"rembrandt-finally-to-be-revealed-in-allentown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=104929","title":{"rendered":"Rembrandt finally to be revealed in Allentown"},"content":{"rendered":"

Featured Image: Rembrandt van Rijn (Dutch, 1606\u20131669), Portrait of a Young Woman (detail), 1632, oil on panel. Allentown Art Museum: Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1961. (1961.35)<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Exhibition opening on January 24 spotlights newly conserved painting<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Allentown, Pa. <\/strong>\u2013 After a delay of nearly a year due to COVID-19 restrictions, the Allentown Art Museum <\/strong>has targeted Sunday, January 24, 2021<\/strong>, as the date for the public unveiling of its 1632 painting Portrait of a Young Woman<\/em><\/strong>. The painting will be on display for the first time following conservation at New York University\u2019s Conservation Center and its heralded reattribution to the master himself, Rembrandt van Rijn. The painting is the centerpiece of the exhibition Rembrandt Revealed<\/em><\/strong>, which tracks the provenance of the masterwork over the centuries and offers a deep dive into the conservation process and the complexities of art attribution.<\/p>\n

Rembrandt Revealed <\/em>opens to Museum members on January 23 and to the general public on January 24 and continues through May 2, 2021. Museum hours are Friday through Sunday, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Advanced ticketing is encouraged.<\/h1>\n

Learn more at AllentownArtMuseum.org<\/a>.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

The announcement of the reattribution of the painting to Rembrandt in early 2020 triggered international attention. While the work had been ascribed to Rembrandt since the seventeenth century, around 1970 scholars demoted it to \u201cWorkshop of Rembrandt van Rijn,\u201d citing concerns of \u201cindistinct brushwork in the whole of the head\u201d and \u201clack of clarity in the depiction of the clothing and jewelry.\u201d During conservation of the painting, which began in 2018, the use of ultraviolet photography, X-radiography, infrared reflectography, and analysis of paint samples with cross-section microscopy and scanning electron microscopy revealed that overpainting in the costume area and thick layers of darkened varnish had obscured details and affected the overall look of the work. Removal of the overpaint and varnish revealed the true nature of the original brushwork, consistent with the masterful hand of Rembrandt.<\/p>\n

Rembrandt painted Portrait of a Young Woman <\/em>in 1632, shortly after he moved from his native Leiden to the city of Amsterdam, where he began working in dealer Hendrick Uylenburgh\u2019s studio. A small group of paintings from this time seems to feature the same model, once identified as the artist\u2019s sister and now thought to be Uylenburgh\u2019s wife, Maria van Eyck.<\/p>\n

Through a close focus on Portrait of a Young Woman<\/em>, Rembrandt Revealed <\/em><\/strong>offers a deep dive into the conservation process, with a step-by-step description of the kinds of decisions and discoveries that are made by art conservators every day. It also explores the complexities and uncertainties of the attribution process and invites visitors to participate in that conversation.<\/p>\n

Rembrandt Revealed <\/em>is supported through a grant from the Richard C. Von Hess Foundation. The Samuel H. Kress Foundation made possible the conservation of the painting.<\/p>\n

ABOUT THE ALLENTOWN ART MUSEUM<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Allentown Art Museum is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization whose mission is to use the arts and culture as a catalyst to drive interaction, experimentation, and social change for everyone. By collecting, preserving, studying, exhibiting, interpreting, and teaching visual art, the Museum enlightens, engages, energizes, and empowers people\u2014transforming the community one person and one idea at a time. <\/em>For more information please visit AllentownArtMuseum.org<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Information and image provided to TVL by:
\nChris Potash
\nManager of Marketing and Public Relations
\nAllentown Art Museum<\/p>\n

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