Vanishing Rembrandts

Duration: :47

Year Published: 1992

Creator: Paladin Pictures Production

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Description: Presents information about the Dutch government's controversial Rembrandt Research Project, known for its findings that more than two-thirds of paintings formerly attributed to Rembrandt were actually painted by others. Explores disagreements about how the attributions have been arrived at, the significance of the attributions and their accuracy. Illustrates the experts' comments with details of each painting in question as well as showing many paintings in their current environments. Interviews prominent members of the international art world such as the curator of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Walter Liedtke, and of the National Gallery in London, Christopher Brown; art dealer Otto Nauman; art collector, the Duke of Westminster; art historians such as Professor Julius Held; and members of the committee, Josua Bruyn, Ernst Van De Wetering, and Peter Van Thiel.