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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;all_fakes, post: 4238528, member: 55&quot;]Well, no, unfortunately.</p><p>The implication is that if the one you are researching looks a great deal like a known 18th century original, it is highly likely that the one you are researching is a relatively modern copy of the 18th century original.</p><p>Personally, I&#039;d want to know some answers regarding provenance: where has this painting been for the last 500 years?</p><p>...and How do we know it was not mounted on board to conceal the back, which might reveal the true age of the canvas?</p><p>and ….Do we really know it was &quot;cut from a stretcher&quot; or is that just what we are intended to think? </p><p>Those are the questions I&#039;d think about before I believed it dated to the 16th century; also noting that canvas did not come into general use until the 17th century.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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