18th Century Follower of Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn

There is a crack that has split the panel into two halves. The panel has been rejoined and is supported on the verso. The surface is in generally good condition aside from fine craquelure throughout. Under UV; inpaint down the crack and along the left side of the painting.
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This work is an 18th Century copy after a painting with slightly larger dimensions formerly in the collection of Adolphe Schloss, Paris. (see A. Bredius, The Paintings of Rembrandt, New York 1942, vol. 1, p. 11, cat. no. 184; and H. de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century, London 1916, vol. 6, p. 226, cat no. 427.)