The New York Times profiles Jan Six in a recent profile, the Dutch aristocrat who discovered a pair of unattributed Rembrandt works. “What sets Rembrandt apart is his ability to paint the person,” he says. “When I go through a museum and there’s a Rembrandt, I’ll pass it the way you do a person, looking out of the corner of my eye, thinking, Oh, who’s that? like it might be somebody I know. It’s a living human being.”
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