New Rembrandt Discovered

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Advanced X-ray techniques have revealed a previously undiscovered Rembrandt self-portrait. The portrait is hidden under the master's own painting called "The old man with the beard".

An Amsterdam museum announced on Friday (December 2) that advanced X-ray techniques had revealed a new Rembrandt painting. The painting was previously attributed to an unknown painter in Rembrandt's entourage around 1620.

The work is called 'The Old Man with the Beard.’

When scientists examined the painting with x-rays, they were surprised to find an unfinished self-portrait under the painting.

[JORIS DIK, SCIENTIST]:
"This painting was discovered recently and attributed to Rembrandt by leading Rembrandt expert Ernst van de Wetering partially based on the x-ray image of this painting, because below the surface of this painting is actually an unfinished self-portrait of Rembrandt and that's something we discovered using advanced x-ray technology."

It was quite usual for painters to reuse their canvas, and without x-ray technology, the Rembrandt self-portrait could have remained unknown forever.

[JORIS DIK, SCIENTIST]:
"Many of Rembrandt's paintings have been reused and the painter usually recycled the carriers of his paintings, panels or canvases and painted on top of existing compositions and that's also the case with this painting. Through conventional analysis we found out that the painting had been changed, had been altered, but it wasn't clear whether there was a completely full-blown second painting underneath or whether the surface painting had been worked a little bit, had been reworked, so that's something that we found out using advanced x-ray techniques."

He added it would be difficult to actually see the the famous artist's newly discovered self-portrait...