French term
Retired as of Jan 2019!
Native in: English
Works in: German to English, French to English
attribution
Context is the checking of art works at an art fair to ensure the veracity of the provided documention. I'm assuming that "attribution" would not be wrong here, but don't know if it is the most appropriate word for this context. I.e. "attributing" a work to a specific artist.
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Tony M
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Christopher Crockett
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Dec 31, 2016 14:24: Rachel Fell changed "Level" from "PRO" to "Non-PRO"
Non-PRO (3): Yvonne Gallagher, writeaway, Rachel Fell
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Proposed translations
attribution
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Laurette Tassin
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Merci, Laurette !
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Verginia Ophof
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Thanks, Verginia!
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Charles Davis
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Thanks, Charles!
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ph-b (X)
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Merci, ph-b !
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Christopher Crockett
: Obviously attribtution can also involve "une zone de production" which i take to mean (for instance) a region. Far as i know (not very far, actually, as the crow flies), there is no difference between the FR & ENG/AM usage of the word.
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Thanks, Chris! Yes, absolutely: I didn't intend my answer to be encyclopædic, just to give the general idea, to illustrate how the terms are used in the same way in both FR and EN.
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Reference comments
M.A., Ph.D. Historian/Art Historian
Native in: English 
Works in: French to English, English
here's the OED
4. The ascribing of an effect to a cause, of a work to its author, date, place, or of date and place to a work. esp. in Art-criticism: The ascription of a work of art to its supposed author.
a1665 J. Goodwin Πλήρωμα τὸ Πνευματικόv (1670) xiii. 373: Though the same attribution..be made unto God..wherein the action is ascribed unto God.
1848 J. O. Halliwell Ellis's Specimens Early Eng. Romances (new ed.) 75 (note): Few mistakes are more usual than the attribution of early pieces to the copyists.
1881 G. Saintsbury Dryden i. 19 The blundering attribution of Dryden and his rivals to Corneille and Racine.
1882 J. Evans in Nature 18 Apr. 549/2 Of John Hyrcanus..there are numerous copper coins of undoubted attribution.
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