How the movie “Stuart Little” Solved the Mystery of a Lost Painting Decades Ago
Is the year 2009 on Christmas Eve, imagine you are on the couch at home watching a movie with your family, suddenly, you look at the background of a scene and you see a painting that catches your attention, but not only that, it looks familiar, as if you had seen it before, and indeed, you have seen it before, but you do not know very well where. So, as the art historian that you are, you start to investigate.
Gergely Barki, was watching a movie with his daughter. As I mentioned before, it was 2009 in the middle of Christmas Eve, the children’s classic “Stuart Little” was playing on TV with a cast of actors including Hugh Laurie, Geena Davis and Michael J. Fox voicing little Stuart, a talking mouse. As he watches the movie, a painting appears in the background that looks oddly familiar, but he can’t remember where or when.
As the film progresses, he sees another scene. Now he does remember where he has seen it, in a photograph of an art exhibition, many years ago. He does not remember who the author is, let alone the name of the painting , but now he is sure he has seen it before.
