Who was buried in Ornans? Restoration of Gustave Courbet’s intriguing masterwork may offer clues

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The Musée d’Orsay hopes the restoration of ‘A Burial at Ornans’—once a Salon scandal, now a pride of the Paris museum—will unlock some of its secrets and reveal the painting to be even bigger and bolder than it appears now