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Back to the future?

Who is the subject, Rembrandt's masterpiece The Sampling Officials (Dutch: De Staalmeesters), or the jananese tourist who is looking/taking a picture? Who is looking at who?

My imagination wanders of, and I imagine going back to 1662, where on the wall of the 'Staalhof'in amsterdam there is a painting of an oriental looking man with some strange device around his shoulders. Back to the future?

 

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