How could this book be missing on this page? ;) García-Arenal, Mercedes; Wiegers, Gerard (2007). A Man of Three Worlds: Samuel Pallache, a Moroccan Jew in Catholic and Protestant Europe. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
--Aboudaqn (talk) 16:09, 30 August 2016 (UTC)Reply
There is no "tradition" linking the Rembrandt painting to Pallache. This is a misconception probably created because the English translation of his biography used this picture on its cover (but the book itself doesn't say a word about a portrait by Rembrandt, and the Spanish original used another picture). There is no mention of this identification on the painting's page by the Rembrandt database ([1]), nor on its museum's page ([2]). The ANU-museum page is not a reliable source about Rembrandt's paintings (and may have simply reproduced the information from wikipedia) - not to mention that it confuses the sultans Ahmad al-Mansur and Zidan Abu Maali, so it is also not a reliable source about Pallache. (Besides, one has to wonder why Rembrandt would have made the portrait of a man about 20 years after the latter's death.) Phso2 (talk) 20:04, 17 September 2022 (UTC)Reply
- Thanks for letting me know this, what you said makes sense Danial Bass (talk) 20:52, 17 September 2022 (UTC)Reply
- Yes, it makes sense for me too. Samuel Pallache is a character so complex, that much of the 'history' about him is shrouded in mystery and in legend, I believe. And, for that matter, so is the character of Rembrandt himself. If the attibution does not come from a reliable source, I believe it should be removed. Thank you, warshy (¥¥) 22:46, 17 September 2022 (UTC)Reply
