Vincent van Gogh still life is deemed genuine

Still Life With Meadow Flowers and Roses, originally considered a Van Gogh, has belonged to a Dutch museum since 1974. But doubts crept in due to the painting style and the unusual canvas size and it was discredited in 2003.

However, experts have now authenticated the painting using an X-ray technique. The painting has now been hung in the Van Gogh section of the Kroeller-Mueller museum in Otterlo for the first time. The work is thought to have come from the period when Van Gogh lived with his brother Theo in Paris from 1886. Van Gogh originally painted a canvas of two wrestlers and then painted Still Life With Meadows and Roses over it.