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Though the painting Still Life with Meadow Flowers and Roses strongly resembles Van Gogh's work, it was not considered an authentic Van Gogh because of its exuberance and large size. Later, when X-rays showed that Still Life was painted over an earlier painting of two wrestlers, art experts were intrigued because they also had documentary evidence that when Van Gogh was a student at a Belgian academy he had produced a painting of two wrestlers. The experts eventually concluded that Still Life is authentic

Which one of the following, if true, most strongly supports the art experts' conclusion?

It is believed that very few of Van Gogh's paintings have been lost or destroyed.

The Belgian academy required its students to paint on large canvases like the one used for Still Life.

Still Life resembles Van Gogh's early works less closely than it resembles his later works.

Van Gogh had not yet developed his mature style when he studied at the Belgian academy.

Forgers often paint over existing paintings in order to use an authentic-seeming canvas.