Muslim visitors rather than local Jews may have modeled Rembrandt’s biblical figures

Evidence

Presumably, an appreciable number of Muslims were actually physically present in the Netherlands as Nabil Matar has shown to have been the case in England. It might be worthwhile, indeed, to research if any of these visitors, rather than the local Jewish marranos, provided live models who inspired Rembrandt’s conception of biblical attire. — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 182

Categorization

• QUESTION: An open research question the author poses — is there any evidence of Muslim visitors in Rembrandt’s Amsterdam studio circle, and would documenting them rewrite the Rembrandt/Jews narrative?