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The Rembrandt painting in the bank


Does anybody know the name of the rembrandt painting that the thief commented about in the bank?

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I answered this (I THINK correctly), on your Classic Film post. (No, I'm not complaining about the double post...it makes sense.)

It wasn't a bank. It was a museum. I think the portrait that O'Toole points out to Hepburn as a "superb Rembrandt," is "A Portrait of Rembrandt's Father," painted in 1631.

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It's a portrait of Jacob Trip.
Screenshot from the movie:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3624/3390389705_edc41f1e05.jpg?v=0

'Original portrait'
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3584/3390387415_6686d36daf.jpg?v=0

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Thanks. I really like that painting. I can't quite understand why though.

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