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Christ Disputing with the Doctors

Date: 1652
Medium: paper
Institution: Rijksmuseum

The theme of Christ and the doctors requires the men visibly to express their astonishment at the unexpected wisdom of a 12-year-old boy. Perhaps this is what attracted Rembrandt to the subject: in any event, he depicted it repeatedly. It is quite conceivable that he wished to work out this hardly completed composition further. However, nothing came of it.

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