Museum Object Identity

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Questions and claims

What is this painting?(question / dispute)
Where was it in 1909?(question / dispute)
Under what title was it sold in 1832?(question / dispute)
Who owned it before Widener?(question / dispute)
Where does the known chain begin?(question / dispute)
What did conservators discover in 1993 that changed attribution?(question / dispute)
Who painted it?(question / dispute)
Which current and historical claims depend on this old catalogue?(question / dispute)
What changed?(question / dispute)
Where is the painting?(question / dispute)
If I opened a respected catalogue in 1931, what would it tell me this object was?(question / dispute)
What does the NGA say now?(question / dispute)

The museum changed the artist, so it must be a different painting.(semantic trap / refusal)
It says ‘Rembrandt f. 1650,’ so Rembrandt painted it.(semantic trap / refusal)
Gerson proved it was a nineteenth-century fake.(semantic trap / refusal)
The provenance says who owned it since 1650.(semantic trap / refusal)
It's at the Denver Art Museum, so Denver owns it now.(semantic trap / refusal)

ART-S01 — Current NGA object page
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Authored in quiet-utility/quiet-utility-museum-object-identity-dossier-v0-1
ART-S02 — NGA scholarly catalogue entry
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Authored in quiet-utility/quiet-utility-museum-object-identity-dossier-v0-1
ART-S03 — NGA Rembrandt attribution methodology essay
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Authored in quiet-utility/quiet-utility-museum-object-identity-dossier-v0-1
ART-S04 — Provenance section of current NGA collection record
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Authored in quiet-utility/quiet-utility-museum-object-identity-dossier-v0-1
ART-S05 — Current NGA collection image / digital surrogate
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Authored in quiet-utility/quiet-utility-museum-object-identity-dossier-v0-1
ART-S06 — Technical image family
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Authored in quiet-utility/quiet-utility-museum-object-identity-dossier-v0-1
ART-S07 — Conservation-treatment record
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Authored in quiet-utility/quiet-utility-museum-object-identity-dossier-v0-1

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