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Could It Be a Work by Rembrandt（伦勃朗）

Rembrandt is the most famous of the seventeenth-century Dutch painters.

However, there are _ 31___ whether some paintings attributed (归属）to

Rembrandt were actually painted by him. One such painting is known as attributed to Rembrandt because of its style, and indeed the representation of the woman’s face is very much like that of portraits known to be by Rembrandt. But

there are problems with the painting that___ 32____ it could not be a work by

Rembrandt.

First, there is something inconsistent （不一致） about the way the woman in

the___ 33__ is dressed. She is wearing a white linen cap of a kind that only

servants would wear—-yet the coat she is wearing has a__ 34___ fur collar that no servant could

afford. Rembrandt, who was known for his attention to the details of his subjects' clothing, would not have been      35_______ of such an inconsistency.

Second, Rembrandt was a master of painting light and_____ 36___ , but in this painting these

elements do not fit together. The face appears to be illuminated（照亮）by light_ 37_____ onto it

from below. But below the face is the dark fur collar, which would absorb light rather than reflect it. So the face should appear partially in shadow, which is not how it appears. Rembrandt would never have made such an error.

Finally, examination of the back of the painting___ 38__ that it was painted on a panel made

of several pieces of wood ___39___ together. Although Rembrandt often painted on wood panels (面板)s no painting known to be by Rembrandt was painted in this way.

For these reasons, the painting was__ 40__ from the official catalog of Rembrandt’s paintings

in the 1930s.