Claudine Pasticos was called into the Château de Hautefort to work on a painting of a young shepherd with his flock and became convinced that she was restoring a Fragonard.
Apart from the subject-matter, an elegantly depicted pastoral scene of the kind the painter loved, she was struck by “the originality, the difference to other painters” and by the “very personal and original” handling of the paint.
Then she discovered an “F” under…(Read more)