It almost caused their breakup.
Fortunately, despite the announcement that they would go on sale separately on the market in 2015, Rembrandt's Soolmans are still together.
No divorce therefore for these two paintings, masterpieces of the Dutch Golden Age back at the Louvre for a few days.
And this for five years before leaving for an equal stay in the capital of the Netherlands.
In February 2016, after an outcry from art lovers, this European solution was found.
The French institution acquired these full-length and ceremonial portraits of Maerten Soolmans and Oopjen Coppit, jointly with its Dutch counterpart the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.
Precisely, the woman is ours and the man theirs but the contract also stipulates that a rotation takes place for a systematic presentation in pairs.
Because, dating from 1634, this set is an absolute rarity in the master's corpus.
So today, on the second floor of the Richelieu wing, room…
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