When New York art dealer Andrew Butterfield arrived at the Museum of Fine Arts in the spring of 2013, he carried with him a tantalizing conjecture: An obscure 15th-century sculpture, which the museum had kept in storage for most of the past 30 years, was in fact the lost work of a Renaissance master.

Butterfield had not come to Boston out of mere curiosity. A year earlier, he had purchased a veritable twin of the MFA work — a gilded wood carving, known as a putto, of a cherub-like boy perched gamely forward on one foot.

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