Painting credited to Rembrandt pupil confirmed as work of Dutch master himself

Analysis of 1638 work, Landscape with Arched Bridge, confirms longstanding belief of a number of experts

A landscape painting considered to have been the work of a Rembrandt pupil has been confirmed as having been executed by the Dutch master himself.

In what has been described as a coup for curators at Berlin's Gemaldegalerie, which owns the painting, Landscape with Arched Bridge is now considered a direct work of the 17th-century painter, Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn. For decades it had been attributed to one of his pupils, Govert Flinck.