Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud
Art museum where restorers exposed a decades-old forged Monet using x-ray and infrared imaging.
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This guide to the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum turns on a February 2008 discovery: restorers preparing a painting called On the Banks of the Seine by Port Villez, signed Claude Monet and hanging here since 1954, for x-ray and infrared study before an exhibition. The scans revealed a careful underdrawing and a fake aging glaze no real Monet should have, plus a signature drawn twice in two different inks. The painting had hung, unquestioned, among the museum's genuine Impressionist collection for fifty-four years.
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