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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Kate Connolly in Berlin

Painting credited to Rembrandt pupil confirmed as work of Dutch master himself

Landscape with Arched Bridge, by Rembrandt
Landscape with Arched Bridge was formerly attributed to Govert Flinck. Photograph: Christoph Schmidt/Gemäldegalerie

A landscape painting considered to have been the work of a Rembrandt pupil has been confirmed as having been executed by the Dutch master himself.

In what has been described as a coup for curators at Berlin’s Gemäldegalerie, which owns the painting, Landscape with Arched Bridge is now considered a direct work of the 17th-century painter, Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn. For decades it had been attributed to one of his pupils, Govert Flinck.

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