Is This $6,000 Jean-Léon Gérôme Oil Painting A Fake Or A Fortune?

Fiona Bruce and Philip Mould investigate a small oil painting depicting a man praying in a mosque. The painting is filled with intricate details and careful brushwork. Its owner, Jon Swihart, purchased it at auction in 1999, believing it to be the work of the nineteenth-century French artist...

59 min - Art, Music & Design - Perspective

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