hard · LSAT Reading Comprehension
A curator writes that the museum's decision to reattribute a disputed panel from a workshop assistant to the master himself was, on the pigment evidence alone, defensible; yet the curator adds, almost in passing, that the reattribution arrived suspiciously close to a scheduled auction of comparable panels, a coincidence the curator declines to call anything more than a coincidence.
The curator's tone in the passage as a whole is best described as
- openly accusatory, charging the museum outright with fabricating evidence to raise auction prices
- measured acceptance of the technical case paired with an understated suggestion of impropriety
- unreserved endorsement of the reattribution, with the timing mentioned only as an interesting aside
- frank uncertainty about whether the pigment evidence truly supports the reattribution at all
- resigned indifference to both the merits and the suspicious timing of the reattribution
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