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February 21, 2025

How a Figure in a Dutch Painting Came to Be Identified as a Viennese Rabbi

Samuel van Hoogstraten’s Old Man at a Window.

Last fall, the Vienna Museum of Art History put up posters to advertise a new exhibit, one of which featured a work by the Dutch master Samuel van Hoogstraten, a student of Rembrandt. Dan Rabinowitz writes:

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