倫勃朗"仿作"可能是真跡大綱

'Fake' masterpiece might be real
倫勃朗“仿作”可能是真跡

A Rembrandt painting that was thought to be a fake and was stashed in a basement for decades may in fact be genuine, according to experts who believe it was painted on wood from the same tree as other 17th century masterpieces.
一幅被認定是贗品，並被藏在地下室數十年的倫勃朗畫作——《大鬍子男人頭像》，實際上可能是真的。得出這一論斷的專家稱，這幅畫的木板，與其它已知的兩幅17世紀傑作都使用了來自同一棵樹的木頭。

"Head of a Bearded Man" was bequeathed to the University of Oxford's Ashmolean Museum in 1951, but the Rembrandt Research Project, a leading authority on the Dutch painter's works, determined in 1982 that it was merely one of a number of copies.
《大鬍子男人頭像》於1951年被遺贈給牛津大學阿什莫林博物館，但考證這位荷蘭繪畫大師作品真僞的權威機構"倫勃朗研究項目"於1982年認定，這只是衆多複製品中的一個。

Now, an expert has said that the wood panel on which it was painted came from the same tree used for Rembrandt's "Andromeda Chained to the Rocks" and Jan Lievens' "Portrait of Rembrandt's Mother" - two works dating to 1630 that were painted when the two artists were working in Leiden.
現在，一位專家說，畫這幅畫的木板與倫勃朗的《被拴在岩石上的安德洛墨達》和揚·利文斯的《倫勃朗母親肖像》所用的木板來自同一棵樹，這兩幅作品創作於1630年，是這兩位藝術家在萊頓工作時創作的。

Peter Klein, an expert in tree dating, analyzed the growth rings of the tree to determine when it was felled.
樹木年代測定專家彼得·克萊因分析了這棵樹的年輪，以確定它是何時被砍伐的。

"The Ashmolean's 'Head of a Bearded Man' was painted on a panel which came from an oak tree in the Baltic region, felled between 1618 and 1628, and used in two known works by Rembrandt and Lievens," Klein said in a statement.
克萊恩在一份聲明中說：“阿什莫林博物館藏的《大鬍子男人頭像》是在一塊麪板上繪製的，這塊面板取自波羅的海地區的一棵橡樹，於1618年至1628年間被砍伐。倫勃朗和利文斯的兩幅已知作品都使用了來自同一棵樹的木頭。”