Pieter Lastman (Amsterdam 1583-1633)

In 1957 this picture was identified as the lost original of Pieter Lastman's Judah and Tamar, a composition which had been known to scholars through an engraving once given to Jan van Noordt but now thought to be by Lastman himself. A painting in a Dutch private collection, formerly thought to have been the original, has since been recognized to be a copy after the print.