You never know what you may find when you wander into the bathroom.

From the Washington Post:

Soon after becoming president of Catholic University, the Very Rev. David M. O’Connell went in search of paper towels in his bathroom cabinet. Something on the bottom shelf caught his eye. Under a pile of junk, he found an old frame.

PH2010011203666.jpgIn the frame was a tiny etching of an old man with an unruly beard and billowing hat, composed of thousands of fine lines. His eyes are tired. His head nods toward his chest.

The piece is signed “Rembrandt.”

O’Connell added the etching to his personal art collection and showed it off to visitors. A dozen years passed, and he never investigated whether the etching was truly created by the famous 17th-century Dutch painter and printmaker Rembrandt Van Rijn.

Then about a year ago, he called the university’s archivist to his home and presented her with the mystery.

“We saw his name twice on the piece, but we still couldn’t believe that’s what this was,” said Leslie Knoblauch, the school’s records management archivist. “Who finds a Rembrandt randomly in their home?”

Check out the rest for the answer.

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