Last week the art world got news of a major find: a previously uncatalogued Rembrandt that seemed to bear all the authentic marks of the master's work. A few collectors and experts even got a chance to look at it briefly when it was put up for auction at a London gallery. Entitled The Flight into Egypt, the small (20 in. by 16 in.) painting showed Joseph leading a donkey bearing the Virgin and Child out of a dark wood, their faces lit by the glow of a lantern hanging from the pommel of the saddle. In one of his more...
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