The Man with the Golden Helmet The Man with the Golden Helmet The Man with the Golden Helmet (c. 1650) is an oil on canvas painting formerly attributed to the Dutch painter Rembrandt and today considered to be a work by someone in his circle. Categorized as a work by Rembrandt for many years, doubts were expressed as to its provenance in 1984 by a Dutch curators' commission specifically created to investigate Rembrandt works of questionable authenticity. They made their remarks whilst viewing the painting in West Berlin. In November 1985, Berlin-based art expert Jan Kelch announced that important details in the painting's style did not
The Gypsy Girl model was a gypsy. Girls painted by Hals who are wearing similar chemises: The Gypsy Girl The Gypsy Girl (sometimes erroneously referred to as "Malle Babbe") is a painting by the Dutch Golden Age painter Frans Hals, painted in 1628 and now in the Louvre Museum. It is a tronie, a study of facial expression and unusual costume, rather than a commissioned portrait. The display of cleavage was not a common feature of costume seen in public in Hals' time and place. This painting was catalogued by Hofstede de Groot in 1910, who wrote "119. THE GYPSY GIRL. B. 41;