# Is It a De La Tour? with Veronique Plesch

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Podcast: [Is It? The Art Mystery Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/is-it-the-art-mystery-podcast-7505217)
Published: 2025-10-31T15:44:24+00:00
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## Resource

This month's mystery centers on a painter of light and silence—Georges de La Tour. His candlelit saints and beggars are hauntingly still, so perfect in their quiet intensity that they almost seem modern. But as with many great artists, the line between what’s real, what’s a copy, and what’s an outright forgery can get blurry. To help us untangle this mystery, I’m joined once again by Carina Popovici, co-founder and CEO of Art Recognition, the Swiss company using artificial intelligence to authenticate artworks. And with us for the first time, my own former professor at Colby College, art historian Veronique Plesch. Together, we’re going to test a painting that just might be by one of France’s most enigmatic masters.

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