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This poorly preserved but exceptionally well-documented painting, unusually heavily impastoed in places, stands alone in Rembrandt’s oeuvre of the 1640s. However, both the composition and the peinture were imitated in Rembrandt’s studio, indicating that de geboorte Christi [the birth of Christ]— as the painting was mentioned in the Warrant Book of Frederik Hendrik in 1646 — had an impact on the production of his circle during these years.
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Van De Wetering, E. (2011). Rembrandt — The Nativity. In: A Corpus of Rembrandt Paintings. Stichting Foundation Rembrandt Research Project, vol 5. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5786-1_16
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