17th - century Dutch artistRembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijnis most noted for his paintings and etching , but he was alsoa prolific drawer . Approximately 1400 resume attributed to Rembrandt outlive today — and recently , CNN reports , experts identified a new one hiding in unmixed slew inside a museum in Braunschweig , Germany .
The chalk sketch of a dog was antecedently opine to be the study ofJohann Melchior Roos , a 16th century German Baroque creative person get it on for his paintings of landscapes and animals . TheHerzog Anton Ulrich Museumhas owned the draftsmanship , calledThe Braunschweig Terrier , since 1770 .
Two old age ago , Dr. Thomas Döring , the museum ’s conservator of print and draft , gave the work another looking while cataloging full treatment for a digital archive . Thanks to his anterior experience examine resume by Rembrandt and his pupils , Döring was able to discover subtle stylistic details that were unequalled to the Dutch Master .
The “ boldness of the strokes , the variations in the blending from very soft to quite violent and the expressive gaze [ of the dog]—these are very typical mannerism of Rembrandt ’s work , ” Döring tell CNN .
Doring comparedThe Braunschweig Terrierto the artist ’s other known sketches , and ask other Rembrandt expert to weigh in with their notion . They , too , are convince that Rembrandt produced the workplace , the professor told CNN .
Rembrandt practiced his artistic technique by sketching brute studies in chalk . He seldom made preparatory sketches for his paintings , but experts at the Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum have compared his terrier drawing to the bark dog crouching in the corner of the artist ’s renowned 1642 picture , The Night Watch .
The newly - labeled draftsmanship is slated to go back on display this April , as part of a newfangled exhibition at the Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum .
[ h / tCNN ]
