This Rembrandt painting below is in a category III, generally rejected as a Rembrandt, and/or attributed to a follower. Of these 29 paintings in this category III, of this time period 1660 - 1669, on A Web Catalogue of Rembrandt Paintings: that link is below, is,.. "One Cool Website", for looking up once considered works of Rembrandt.
Samuel van Hoogstraten 1661/1663
"Tobias's Farewell to His Parents"
Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia
I, vanrijngo, am so disappointed in the master of fine art supposed expertise, that it literally make me just want to give up and quit what I do. I know,.. no matter what I have to say, or show you,.... it will not make one damn bit of difference! But what the hell,.... I'l say it anyway.
From myself finding this painting of Rembrandt's on this beautiful website mentioned above,... while enhancing it for a closer look,... and after more of my findings, all I can say is this,.... that these donkey eared MFA experts, which Rembrandt had included in his drawing of "Satire on Art Criticism", are 100% exactly as he had drawn them, concerning their decision of who had done this painting. I say it was painted in remembrance of the years of Rembrandt's own son Titus,.. and of his marriage to Magdalena van Loo, and under took by Rembrandt after Titus's death. No one would have known this story,.... or would even have attempted its painting, except the one and only,..... Rembrandt.
"Titus's Farewell and Assention" 1668
Only Rembrandt I believe could have done such a marvelous job as this, in his last year or so of his life,... of painting this episode out of his own life while losing a lot of his vision to old age,... telling us the full and exact story behind it, of his own son Titus. I believe Titus is in the proccess of asking the parents of his new bride to be for her hand in marriage, while showing us viewers the true feeling of her parents. Them not really wanting their daughter to marry an artist, a man that they themselves feel will not be able to provide for their daughter's well being. You might say just as his artist father,... by the name of Rembrandt wasn't able to provide a good living for his own family, and ousted out of Amsterdam as a bankrupt good for nothing artist. That would be its hidden meanings, while the double meaning would be of Titus's own departure of his family and loved ones, while the third is of what the MFA experts had come up with themselves,.... only accrediting the painting to a wrongful artist.
Now,... as this painting may becoming more clearer to you,... those of you who are able to see,... aren't those one nice set of wings he had painted on his sons back for his own ascension into the heavens? That short table and chair makes for one realistic looking empty bed,... with the coverings pulled back where he laid dying.
In reality,... what we have here,... is just what you see, Titus standing there holding his heavy coat in one hand while his hat is in the other, him looking down for the great reception that they both had received when asking for their daughters hand in marriage.
Tell me,... just how after looking at this yourselves, can any of you deny who the artist really was, while some may actually be able in seeing Rembrandt himself, standing there with his pet monkey at his feet, along with a chain and I'm assuming a bell to let them know when he was on the move,... while representing going back into time when thing were much happier for the three of them, Rembrandt,Titus and his monkey. Don't you find it rather amazing that the pet monkey turns into his own signature of RHL,... also with his many other signatures he had used in his paintings, his own characteristics and idiosyncrasies surrounding everything in this painting.
In the next to last chapter in the book R. v. R., by Hendrik Van Loon, Rembrandt's closest friend,... Dr. van Loon states; Magdalena was a person with out any charm or any color. She felt convinced that she could have done a great deal better if only she had only followed her parents advice and tried a little harder. He also states that she said she only tolerated her father-in-law (who painted a magnificent likeness of her and Titus) and said she did not like it,.. as it made her look older than she was. She was patronizingly pleasant to her half-sister-in-law Cornelia, but called her a bastard behind her back.
These two pictures above makes it rather easy for some to see an apparition of Rembrandt and his pet monkey on a chain, attending this family gathering. One evening in early September in the year of 1668, a maid of Rembrandt's household, Rebecca Williams came to van Loon with a note signed by Cornelia asking me to come at once to Titus's home on apple Market, as her brother had been suddenly taken ill and seemed in a bad way. When van Loon had arrived, Titus was unconscious from loss of blood from internal hemorrhaging and he knew he was doomed. Titus died the next afternoon. His Father Rembrandt was present while sitting in the corner of the room. Afterwards, Cornelia and Rebecca took him back to the house on the Roozengracht. Rembrandt was sick for two weeks and could not attend his sons funeral. Cornelia tried to cheer him up, telling him that Magdalena was expecting a baby, and his only comment was "Merely some one else for me to lose".
Please Magdalena, gives a little credit for our raising you,... think of what you are going to do. Is this the life that you really want,... to be married to an artist, and not knowing where your next meal is coming from?
How many RHLs would a MFA expert need?
Directed at the art historian and art expert Simon Schama,... now there's a chain, one that Rembrandt would paint,... my friend. A chain of remembrance, of his dead Monkey, of himself standing their, as you should be able to see his boots, when in reality after Titus had died,... he was in such bad health himself at the time,.... he could not even attend his own sons funeral.
you can click on any smaller picture to see a larger version of it.
Computer science technologies in the future,.... will be the only true means of knowing for sure.
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