Explore the Attribution of this artwork, The Man with the Golden Helmet.
Categorized as a work by Rembrandt for many years, doubts were expressed as to its provenance in 1984 by a Dutch curators' commission specifically created to investigate Rembrandt's works of questionable authenticity.  They made their remarks while viewing the painting in West Berlin.
In November 1985, Berlin-based art expert Jan Kelch announced that important details in the painting's style did not match the style of Rembrandt's known works, and that the painting was probably painted in 1650 by one of Rembrandt's students.
"It is not a fake," Kelch averred.  "It remains a great masterful work."
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