[JoeProBono]

[my_pointy_head_is_sharp]

Not the same. It's got that heavy air about it. And it's over-wrought. The new one's dresses are very impressionistic, especially the dress in the foreground, with the red bow and red paint lines. And the light blue and yellow dresses. Pastels? It just doesn't say Van Gogh to me.

The only thing that gives me pause are the featureless faces. There is also a similarity of the windmill itself, to his other windmill paintings.

I'm still looking, though - trying to find out who it could be. It might be an unknown - one of those men at the atelier.

If you lay out all his paintings, in a row, chronologically - this one would come as a surprise.

I'm also wondering why Van Gogh didn't sign this painting? And if he signed all his others?

[my_pointy_head_is_sharp]

Louis van Tilborgh, curator of research at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, said the painting was unusual for the 19th century impressionist, depicting large human figures in a landscape.

I just noticed that the curator himself thinks the painting was unusual for a Van Gogh.

I would like to know what markers they used to authenticate it, other than the art store stamp and the pigments. What about stylistic markers?