This is a painting that has nothing whatsoever to do with Théo Van Rysselberghe, either in terms of its technique or its subject and the way it is treated through expression that verges on caricature. Yet it is listed in a publication, rightly criticised, with a date, 1884, and we have no idea why this year and not another… This painting is clearly not by Théo Van Rysselberghe. It is not a forgery in the strict sense of the word, but a work by another painter.