Restorer found a picture of a pig on a staircase

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Сообщение от SergeiSK

According to the restorer, the carcass recorded, most likely, not the van der Pool, and another artist who made it to the buyer's request pictures. Probably he did not like the grotesque scenes.

The usual thing! I know several such stories from the recent past. Record dead babies, cripples, old ladies and the like. That is something that should not be in a happy and carefree life cruelly banished from the picture. The fact that the "stupidity," wrote the artist, businesslike dealer adjusts for better understanding with the buyer. Although I know one case, because there the initiative came from the restorer: he sincerely believed that without the raven in the foreground image will benefit. The owner, when he saw was in shock!