A Rembrandt’s painting that was thought to be a fake and was hidden in a basement for many years may in fact be real, according to experts who believe it was painted on wood from the same tree as other 17th century works.
Head of a Bearded Man(《大胡子男人头像》) was donated to the University of Oxford's Ashmolean Museum in 1951, but the Rembrandt Research Project, a leading authority on the Dutch painter's works, determined in 1982 that it was just one of a number of copies.
Now, an expert has said that the wood panel(面板) on which it was painted came from the same tree used for Rembrandt's Andromeda Chained to the Rocks and Jan Lievens's Portrait of Rembrandt's Mother—two works dating to 1630 that were painted when the two artists were working in Leiden.
Peter Klein, an expert in tree dating, analyzed the growth rings of the tree to determine when it was cut. "The Ashmolean's Head of a Bearded Man was painted on a panel which came from a tree in the Baltic region, cut between 1618 and 1628, and used in two known works by Rembrandt and Lievens," Klein said in a report.
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