BROOKLYN, NY.- A small, jewel-like portrait, circa 1631, that has been in the Brooklyn Museum collection since 1932 and has not been on public view since early 1945, has recently been reattributed to Rembrandt’s first pupil, Gerrit Dou. It has just been installed for the first time in the European painting galleries in the Beaux-Arts Court, where it will remain on long-term view. The little panel painting, which measures slightly larger than 6 inches by 4 inches, arrived at Brooklyn as part of a bequest from the estate of Colonel Michael Friedsam, manager and later president of the New Yorkbased department store B. Altman & Co. Dou was one of the founding members of the Leiden “fine painters,” a group active in Leiden in the Netherlands from the early seventeenth through the late eighteenth century and known for its small, detailed paintings, often of genre scenes. By the early twentieth century, this style of painti