She Painted It, He Signed It, and History Thanked Him for Two Hundred Years

Margaretha de Geer's face has stared out from Rembrandt's most celebrated late portraits for centuries — but the more you look at who actually had the power, the money, and the motive in that marriage, the harder it gets to explain why we're still calling them his paintings. This week we get into the systemic art-world machinery that didn't just erase women artists, it actively needed them erased — and why the authentication industry has a vested financial interest in keeping things exactly that way.