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October 2, 2015

France, Netherlands join forces to buy Rembrandt portraits

By MIKE CORDER
Associated Press

Image from the Rijksmuseum
The portraits of a young man and his wife ornately dressed in the high fashion of the Golden Age were painted in 1634.

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — The Dutch and French governments are joining forces to buy a pair of wedding portraits by Dutch master Rembrandt van Rijn from the Rothschild family, and will shuttle them between Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum and the Louvre in Paris.


 
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