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Old Master forgeries’ second lives as teaching tools

Museums, universities and other art organisations have tapped into the enduring fascination with forgeries for pedagogic purposes

J. Cabelle Ahn
25 October 2024
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At left: Jean Honoré Fragonard's The Sultan (1774). At right: an undated forgery in the style of Fragonard's The Sultan. Both from the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art Courtesy the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York