"Corpus of Rembrandt Paintings" have been will have a much-reduced final volume.
The Rembrandt Research Project (RRP) is to be closed down, although it is tantalisingly near to finishing its full catalogue. After 42 years of work, five volumes of the Courpis of Rembrandt Paintings have been published, the most recent last October (Springer Publishing 1,200 Euro's). There was to have been one more detailed volume, but this has been dropped.
In meticulous detail, the Courpus provides entries on 240 paintings which have been accepted as works by Rembrandt, along with 162 doubted or rejected works. This leaves 80 works which have not yet been catalogued, a quarter of the oeuvre. Read more here
Article by Martin Bailey
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