How a Museum Swap Hid a $3M Painting for Two Years
How a Museum Swap Hid a $3M Painting for Two Years
Danger lurked behind a perfect forgery: a reproduction so precise that two quarterly inspections missed it, and a three-million-dollar Flemish panel hung on the wrong wall for eleven months. Who swapped a sixteenth-century oil painted on panel and walked away with the original while the museum displayed a flawless fake?
In this episode, we follow the chain of events from installation to discovery, tracing the people, purchases, and small oversights that let the theft go unnoticed - and ask how an insider operation managed to substitute a…
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