The curators at the Museum of Art Fakes are already hard at work preserving this tasty morsel of history.

>I don't understand why people care. Either you like the painting or not. Why does it matter who painted it?

Does it matter if a baseball card is "authentic"? To a collector it does.

The French museum are collectors. In this case, art collectors.

You can think of an art museum as a place to see someone's collection. Of art.

When this concept is clear, you arrive at a way to understand their mentality. Not that I agree with their mentality, but that's just how it is.