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The Coremans Report: How an Art Forger Was Caught by His Own Microscope
After WWII, Dutch painter Han van Meegeren was caught selling a "Vermeer" to a Nazi official. He defended himself by claiming he had forged it. Paul Coremans' chemical analysis proved him right - the paint contained a synthetic resin Vermeer could not have used.
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The forger's defence required the prosecution to prove he was capable of forgery. Provenance and connoisseurship had failed; only chemistry settled it.
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