In 2011 Bords de la Seine à Argenteuil was featured on the British TV programme Fake or Fortune?, in a failed attempt to establish it as an authentic painting by Claude Monet.

The title Bords de la Seine à Argenteuil along with the date, 1875, appears on the frame, and there is a painted signature purportedly of Claude Monet.

Journalist Fiona Bruce and art dealer and historian Philip Mould investigated the painting in the first episode of the first series of the TV programme Fake or Fortune?, first aired on 19 June 2011.

Prominent art experts Joachim Pissarro, Charles Stuckey and Richard Brettell reject the painting’s authenticity.

[6] Businessman Ralph Wilson acquired a Monet painting with the title La Seine a Argenteuil in 1997 from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.