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| Christ and the Woman of Samaria |
Artist:Style of Rembrandt (Dutch, ca. 1655)
Medium:Oil on wood
Dimensions:25 x 19 1/4 in. (63.5 x 48.9 cm)
Classification:Paintings
Credit Line:Bequest of Lillian S. Timken, 1959
Accession Number:60.71.14
Not on view
The authorship of this painting has been much debated, but most scholars consider it to be by a Rembrandt pupil of the mid-1650s, with improvements made by the master himself. The 1656 inventory of Rembrandt's possessions lists "a painting of a Samaritan retouched by Rembrandt." He often assigned biblical subjects to his students as exercises in stagecraft as well as painting or drawing techniques.
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