Long-held doubts about the authenticity of the National Gallery’s masterpiece, bought for £2.5m in 1980, are backed by pioneering technology.
––The Observer
The painting bought by the gallery for a staggering sum in 1980 is not by Rubens.
––Waldemar Januszczak, The Sunday Times
It has all the ingredients of a delicious art mystery; involving one of the world’s most valuable paintings, the reputation of an old master, and claims of a cover-up at the National Gallery.
––Jeevan Vasagar, The Guardian
Over the years, several critics have questioned the Rubens attribution for the museum’s Samson and Delilah, including artist and independent scholar Euphrosyne Doxiadis who has claimed in several papers and interviews that certain details didn’t add up. […] The recent discovery using AI technology is just another strike against the piece.
––ARTnews
The dispute over [the painting’s] authorship pits […] Euphrosyne Doxiadis and her supporters—unassuming Davids in a story about an artist whose subjects were often drawn from history and myth—against the Goliath of one of the world’s most venerated art repositories.
––Edward M. Gomez, Der Spiegel
EUPHROSYNE DOXIADIS is an artist and art historian. She teaches at the Aegean Center for the Fine Arts and is the author of The Mysterious Fayum Portraits: Faces from Ancient Egypt.