This month's #ConnectingCollections theme—fakes and forgeries—asks us to consider what makes an object real. ⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ In 1939, J. Paul Getty acquired what he thought was his first antiquity: a terracotta group of a young woman reclining on a luxurious couch, surrounded by cupids. Curators soon doubted its authenticity, and it came to be understood as the product of late 19th-century European workshops, which produced this style of terracottas fashioned after the antique for an eager market. ⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ But it turns out, thanks to some detective work by former Getty Museum curatorial assistant Laure Marest, that Getty himself had the same question: she discovered that Getty had scribbled "Modern?" next to its lot in the auction catalogue, but he took a chance on it anyway. ⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ Today, Getty’s first "antiquity" is back on display—this time, as part of a gallery dedicated to his own collection. It's a real object, even if it's not ancient: it helps us understand more about how Getty built his art...