QUOTE(DanMurphy @ Fri 3rd February 2012, 3:52pm)
So the French government, which owns the painting, says that it's uncertain who painted it, and equally uncertain that it's a self-portrait of whoever the painter is. And yet wikipedia's incorrect attribution has been repeatedly rebroadcast. Aint "knowledge" grand?
Ha! There is a photograph of a hoverfly on WP which the photographer correctly labelled as Leucozona glaucia, but someone argued that it was L. laternaria and got the damn fool ChristianBier to change the file name etc. So for two years the WP page had the wrong image, and even today Commons has the file miss identified:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_talk:Leu..._laternaria.jpg