[HN Gopher] Rijksmuseum researchers discover new painting by Rem...
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Rijksmuseum researchers discover new painting by Rembrandt van Rijn
Author : ohjeez
Score : 132 points
Date : 2026-03-04 15:42 UTC (4 days ago)
(HTM) web link (www.rijksmuseum.nl)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.rijksmuseum.nl)
| apt-get wrote:
| ... with a high-resolution scan of the work itself available for
| download, to boot. I really appreciate whenever museums go out of
| their way to share those publically! Much better than many
| paintings only officially available as some 400px thumbnail.
| microtonal wrote:
| Obligatory link to the hi-res viewer of the Nachtwacht (Night
| Watch):
|
| https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/stories/operation-night-watch/...
| celaleddin wrote:
| Yes! I visited Rijksmuseum a few years ago with a close friend
| and I liked the painting "The Gulf of Naples with the Island of
| Ischia in the Distance" very much. I downloaded the high
| quality scan from the painting's museum web page[1] and got it
| printed onto a canvas to hang in our apartment. We really enjoy
| its presence with my wife!
|
| [1]: https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/The-Gulf-
| of-...
| neduma wrote:
| > got it printed onto a canvas to hang
|
| How, Care to share the steps. I'm thinking of the same thing.
| ChrisMarshallNY wrote:
| It's a cool story.
|
| As a [former] artist, myself, the thing that comes to mind, is
| the model must have been in _real_ discomfort, after about 3
| minutes.
| Nevermark wrote:
| Yeah. Even with an "air" book! A couple support canes could
| help.
| forinti wrote:
| I'm currently reading Heretics by the Cuban writer Leonardo
| Padura. The plot centers around a Rembrandt stolen from a Jewish
| family that tried to flee to Cuba in the 1930s and a big part of
| the story follows a young Jewish artist that takes up a kind of
| apprenticeship with Rembrandt. Padura seems to like stories that
| span many decades and even centuries as in this book.
|
| Anyway, the book does a good job of describing Rembrandt's life
| even if the story is mostly fiction.
| Tepix wrote:
| The Rijksmuseum is amazing, reserve a day on your next visit to
| Amsterdam and take it all in!
|
| I also like their tech stack, they let you use your own phone +
| headphones for the guided tours.
| ghaff wrote:
| Yes. Don't know if I'll make it again on my upcoming trip--
| missed the Van Gogh last time because it was sold out but have
| tickets this time. It always amazes me how quickly schedules
| fill up. Doesn't help that I'm also working.
| derektank wrote:
| Beautiful building too. The busker playing the accordion in the
| tunnel was a kind of magical addition to the experience
| drob518 wrote:
| Definitely. This museum is great if you love Dutch masters,
| particularly Rembrandt. Highly recommended.
| JoshTriplett wrote:
| The Rijksmuseum is incredible, but also huge; the kind of
| museum you pick a small fraction of to see in any given trip.
| There are also several smaller museums that you can see in a
| day.
|
| The Mauritshaus is a small museum in a converted manor,
| containing an incredible number of famous paintings, notably by
| Vermeer and Rembrandt.
|
| Folks here might also appreciate the M. C. Escher museum.
| wewewedxfgdf wrote:
| "What's this painting here behind the couch? Did any of you guys
| put this here? Hey, wait, what...... this is a Rembrandt!"
| crote wrote:
| _Re-attributed_ , to be more accurate.
|
| The painting wasn't exactly unknown: its existence was reasonably
| well-documented and it was included in a variety of Rembrandt
| catalogues. However, in 1960 it was decided that it _wasn 't_ a
| Rembrandt, so people mostly stopped caring about it.
|
| This discovery is a re-analysis of the painting using modern
| methods, which revealed that the 1960 "not a Rembrandt" decision
| was a bit premature.
| skrebbel wrote:
| > However, in 1960 it was decided that it wasn't a Rembrandt,
| so people mostly stopped caring about it.
|
| I'll never understand this about the art scene. Like, if
| Rembrandt was a shit painter, his works wouldn't have been so
| valuable today. But then, suddenly, one random painting of his
| is only interesting if it was actually made by him? If we can
| judge his entire oeuvre on quality, why couldn't we do the same
| with this one painting? How is it possible that people stop
| caring about a painting just because it _wasn 't_ made by
| Rembrandt?
|
| I mean, is it a good painting or not? If not, why do we
| suddenly care now? If it is, why didn't we before?
| odyssey7 wrote:
| Works of art are the original NFTs? Pricing is meme-like,
| though over longer timescales.
| loloquwowndueo wrote:
| How art is valued is entirely illogical and irrational. Like
| - that time an entire art installation was confused with
| trash and thrown out. https://i-d.co/article/museum-cleaners-
| thought-this-art-inst...
| kleiba wrote:
| Similarly to why you can pay 7-digit prices for a watch.
| loloquwowndueo wrote:
| At least that watch still tells the time.
| SR2Z wrote:
| Yeah, but mechanical watches are so much worse at telling
| time than cheap digital watches that it's not even worth
| discussing.
| loloquwowndueo wrote:
| Even a broken mechanical luxury watch is right twice a
| day. A broken digital watch with a screen is useless when
| it's broken.
|
| (I'm just trolling at this point, let me know and we can
| stop this)
| anal_reactor wrote:
| I don't think it's illogical nor irrational. When you look
| at artworks below EUR5 000 then there should be correlation
| between artistic value and price in euros. Not exactly a
| linear function, but clear correlation. Above that you're
| not buying artwork - you're buying the prestige and social
| status of owning an expensive artwork. It's the rich
| people's equivalent of buying Supreme clothes just to
| impress the ladies.
| elondaits wrote:
| Because part of the price of a work of art is its perceived
| historic / cultural importance. Autographs are taking this to
| the extreme, where only the mark of the author exists, on its
| own, and still gets a high price. On the other end, fakes and
| very accurate reproductions, would never be as valued even if
| the effect as a visual piece is practically the same.
| lisper wrote:
| NFTs are an attempt to recreate this dynamic in the digital
| world.
| bell-cot wrote:
| "It is a _Rembrandt_ " carries heavy cache when rich men are
| trying to one-up each other.
| tasuki wrote:
| As someone who likes to hang things on walls, I'm rather
| happy the art prices are as insane as they are. The antiques
| shop down the street sometimes sells reasonably interesting
| and/or nice original paintings for 10-20 eur. If it's someone
| unknown it's gonna be dirt cheap, no matter how good. Imagine
| if art prices were rational, what would I do?!
| cubefox wrote:
| Unrelated, but I have never before seen that "ij" ligature in the
| title.
| jvdvegt wrote:
| IJ is a seperate character (?) in Dutch There are more like
| this: ei, eu, ui, oe, ch (and I'm probably forgetting some
| others)
| dmix wrote:
| That's a pretty amazing painting, I like how they attached a high
| quality jpg of it. Rembrandt is my favourite for sure.
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