Scholars have determined that a 17th-century French painting in the National Gallery of Art, long thought to be a masterpiece by Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665), is not a Poussin but a copy made by an unknown artist. The original turns out to be a painting, once thought to be a copy, in the Cleveland Museum of Art.

Folks in Cleveland say they knew it all along.

Though the National Gallery painting was demoted by scholarly consensus in May, no announcement has ever been made by the museum, and as of yesterday, the label that hangs with the painting still asserts that "The Holy Family on the ...

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