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October 14, 2004
Catherine Scallen Rembrandt, Reputation, and the Practice of Connoisseurship Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2004. 220 pp.; 61 b/w ills. Cloth $55.00 (9051666252)
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CrossRef DOI: 10.3202/caa.reviews.2004.89

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Catherine Scallen’s lively and informative book focuses primarily upon a curious episode in the history of art history: the sizeable and, in hindsight, largely unjustified expansion of the body of paintings ascribed to Rembrandt in the decades preceding World War I. Rembrandt, Reputation, and the Practice of Connoisseurship details the origins and evolution of that campaign, during which the number of pictures assigned to the master roughly doubled, while also investigating the social mechanisms that...