Arts
fromwww.theguardian.com
4 months agoFresh doubt cast on authenticity of Rubens painting in National Gallery
New evidence suggests that the National Gallery's 'Samson and Delilah' may be a 20th-century copy, not painted by Rubens.
Fourmanoir, a Gauguin researcher who now lives in Mexico, takes a very different view. He dates the work to 1916, 13 years after Gauguin's death, and believes it was painted by Ky-Dong Nguyen Van Cam (1875-1929), a Vietnamese friend of the French artist on the Marquesan island of Hiva Oa.