Rembrandt van Rijn’s “Portrait of a Young Woman” will soon be on display at the Allentown Art Museum.

The piece, which dates back to 1632, returned home Feb. 3 to the museum after two years of research and restoration at the Conservation Center, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, New York City.

The restored Rembrandt painting was to have gone on display in June at the Allentown Art Museum.

However, the museum closed to the public March 14 because of the coronavirus pandemic shutdown.

Chris Potash, manager of marketing and public relations, said the painting is now scheduled to go on display in the museum’s Kress Gallery on Sept. 20.

“Portrait of a Young Woman,” a gift from the Kress Foundation in 1961, will be the focal point in the Kress Gallery when it is unveiled and displayed with Rembrandt prints.

“It will really be a celebration of this painting and going in depth about its history, its recent journey, the changes that have happened, and the new attention that has come to it,” says exhibition curator Elaine Mehalakes.

Several layers of varnish and additional overpainting applied to the painting during past centuries by conservators obscured Rembrandt’s telltale delicate brushwork.

Researchers from the Rembrandt Research Project examined the work in the 1970s and attributed it to “Studio of Rembrandt.”

The restored painting reveals colors that are truer to what the painting looked like when first painted.

After the painting was cleaned and conserved by Shan Kuang, assistant conservator and research scholar in the Samuel H. Kress Program in Paintings Conservation, experts now believe it was painted by Rembrandt himself.