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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;blooey, post: 3305187, member: 12007&quot;]No one will nail down a definitive attribution on old masters, the community is afraid their reputation will be damaged if later another &quot;expert&quot; refutes their findings, or worse still sues them or they lose their job. All of these possibilities have already occurred and the situation has been like this for several years now. </p><p>Even the big houses like Sotheby&#039;s and Christies have a prominent disclaimer in their catalogues saying they cannot guarantee authorship on articles more than &quot;X&quot; number of years old.</p><p><br /></p><p>I should think the painting is good enough to get one of the grades of attribution to Cesari, these attribution grades vary and are not numbered, but &quot;coded&quot; in the vocabulary so that buyers of said works can assess the degree of confidence of the attribution by the seller.</p><p><br /></p><p>Fire off a pic, I&#039;m sure you&#039;ll get a positive response.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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