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A painting kicked out of Rembrandt’s catalog in 1960 just got kicked back in

Ellsworth Toohey
Mar 04, 2026
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Researchers looking at Rembrandt’s Vision of Zacharias in the Temple. Photo: Rijksmuseum/Kelly Schenk

In 1960, scholars decided Vision of Zacharias in the Temple wasn’t a Rembrandt. A private buyer snapped it up the following year, and for 65 years, nobody outside that collector’s home could examine it. The painting simply vanished from art history.

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