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An Elderly Woman

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The reading and the lecture both discuss a Rembrandt's painting named Portrait of an Elderly Woman in a White Bonnet. While the reading states that this picture cannt be Rembrandt's because of a number of discrepancies, the lecture states the opposite. In facts, the professor refutes this thesis.
First of all, the reading claims that the cloathing worn by the lady in the painting is rather unusual given her social status. Indeed, the lady is wearing an expensive fur collar that contrasts with her humble cloathing. The lecture argues that that particular fur ornament was posterior to the painting. Furthermore, the professor states that it was added about a hundred years later from the original painitng. She states that it was thought that having
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