Which Came First: Paintings of the Nativity or of the Magi?

There are a couple Rembrandt paintings that made news in 2021.

 

One may be an unknown Rembrandt recovered in 2019 after being stolen from the Friedenstein Castle forty years ago. It was Germany's biggest art heist, and the thief (or thieves) has never been charged. One of the stolen paintings, the Bearded Old Man, is a portrait thought to be done by one of Rembrandt's students. But after recent careful study, it was announced in November some believe it may have been painted by Rembrandt...