Results of spectroscopic examinations of three paintings that by the formal and stylistic features can be attributed to the Dutch and Flemish schools of the XVII–XVIIIth centuries were presented. It was supposed that one of the paintings was created by David Teniers the Younger. The signature ″L. de Moni″ was found on the paint layer of another painting. Inorganic art pigments including those of the XIXth century were identified using laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy. Fourier-transform IR spectroscopy was used to determine the paint binders, which allowed the lower limits of the creation time of these artworks to be defined. Results of a microscopic examination of the stratigraphic structure revealed that the creation technology of these artworks differed from that of Dutch and Flemish artists of the XVII–XVIIIth centuries. Thus, all three investigated paintings were XXth century stylistic forgeries of Dutch and Flemish paintings of the XVI–XVIIIth centuries.
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Translated from Zhurnal Prikladnoi Spektroskopii, Vol. 80, No. 6, pp. 930–936, November–December, 2013.
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Shabunya-Klyachkovskaya, E.V., Kiris, V.V., Shimko, A.N. et al. Detection of Forgeries of Dutch and Flemish Paintings of the XVII–XVIII Centuries by means of Spectroscopic Techniques. J Appl Spectrosc 80, 922–929 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10812-014-9866-0
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