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Discover the magnetism of this iconic painting that nearly fell into obscurity. An assessment by Alison Hokason for The Metropolitan Museum. When the British artist Frederic Leighton exhibited his iconic painting Flaming June in 1895 at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, critics assessed it as one of his finest submissions, and it quickly became a popular hit.…

Layers of earlier well-meaning but overzealous restoration work had obscured the Old Master’s hand—until now