reattribute

present singular third person reattributes · participle present reattributing · participle past reattributed · past reattributed

1. To change the attribution of; to give credit to someone else for a deed.

   A magnificent picture of a falcon, long attributed to the 14th-century Chinese animal painter Xu Ze, has recently been reattributed to the 16th-century Korean painter Yi Am, partly on the basis of a seal stamped on the picture's surface.

   2009 March 20, Holland Cotter, “Treasures at a Korean Crossroad”, in New York Times