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Nature 445, 695 (15 February 2007) | doi:10.1038/445695a; Published online 14 February 2007
Pigments help to date disputed masterpiece
Alison Abbott
Art collector George Lester Winward acquired this beautiful Madonna and child, now known as the De Brécy Tondo, in 1981 at a country-house sale in England. The more he studied it, the more he became convinced that it was painted by the Renaissance artist Raphael — not least because of its striking resemblance to Raphael's sixteenth-century Sistine Madonna in the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister in Dresden.
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