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attempts to argue for authenticity of, 290

as benchmark for other “new” Vermeers, 214–17, 275

Boon as middleman for sale of, 179–84, 180, 186–89, 193, 198–200, 263, 270, 283, 312n

Boymans Museum and, 185, 186, 188–91, 198–210, 268

Bredius and, vii, 139–44, 149, 156, 179, 181–85, 186–91, 192–97, 198–200, 201, 203–5, 209, 221, 226, 240, 244, 263, 289, 312n

canvas (from The Raising of Lazarus) and stretcher used for, 168–69, 168n, 277–78, 311n

Caravaggio connection, 163–66, 167, 195, 197

craquelure created on, 173–78, 174, 204, 277

critical evaluation of, 171, 213–14, 218, 220–22, 223–24, 238, 239, 239n, 297n

display of, current, 213–14

evaluated as fake by Duveen, 188–90, 190, 191, 192, 195, 199–200, 209, 230, 292

fooling the experts, 195–97, 196n, 201–2, 205–6, 206n, 209, 230–33, 239n, 242, 243–45, 285, 286

forgery techniques used in, 167–69, 205, 277–78, 317n

Hannema and, 185, 186, 187, 188–91, 198–205, 207–10, 218, 243, 271, 285, 289, 292, 314n

mistakes and clumsy execution in, 234–35, 235

as “normal accident,” 292, 322n

put in storage, 1939, 209–10, 222

sale of, 198–200

sale price, 181n, 199–200

random damage to, 178, 204

relining of by Luitwieler, 204–5

restorer’s examination of, 203–6, 206n

signature, 171–72, 192–93, 195

success of, 170–72, 239n

unveiling of, 207–10

Van Meegeren’s trial and, 281, 283–84, 285, 286

Christie’s Auction House, 292

Christ in the House of Mary and Martha (Vermeer), 83–84, 129–31, 131n, 152, 194, 195, 196, 197, 203

Christ with the Woman Taken in Adultery (Van Meegeren forgery), 7, 8, 21, 214, 261, 263, 269, 275, 278, 281, 286, 320n

Goering and, 84–85, 209, 250, 260–61, 262, 263–64, 268, 275, 281, 303n, 320n

Chuang Tzu, 187

Churchill, Winston, 11–12

Clark, Kenneth, 58, 221

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 134

Colnaghi art dealer, 89, 90

Cologne, Germany, bombing of, 56

Concert, The (Vermeer), 90, 100n, 311n

theft of, 90n

Constable, John, 251

Coremans, P. B., 269–70, 276, 278, 281, 282–83, 296n, 311n, 314–15n, 317n, 321n

Cornfield (Millet), 302n

Cornfield (Van Gogh), 302n

Craig, Gordon, 295n, 296n

Czechoslovakia, resistance in occupied, 28

Czernin, Eugen and Jaromir, 59–61, 301n

D

Dachau, 258

Danaë (Titian), 255

David (Michelangelo), 242

Davies, Robertson, 322n

Decoen, Jean, 290, 310n

De Groene Amsterdammer magazine, 15

de Groot, Cornelis Hostede, 111–14, 111n, 116, 117, 118, 122, 123, 128, 130, 140, 141, 141n, 226, 306n

de Hooch, Pieter, 90, 98, 202, 215–16, 215n, 263, 281, 283

de Hory, Elmyr, 23, 34, 68, 244

de Jong, Louis, 27, 31, 32

Delft, Holland

explosion of 1654, 86, 86n, 303n

Van Meegeren in, 4, 5, 304n

Vermeer in, 4, 64n, 86, 94–95, 125, 303n, 304n

De Nieuwe Dag, 270

Denmark, World War II and, 11

de Ricci, Seymour, 106–7

Descriptive and Critical Catalogue of the Works of the Most Outstanding Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century (De Groot), 111–12

Des Tombe, A. A., 88

de Vries, Arie B., 143, 149, 209, 299n

De Waarheid, 274, 321n

Diana and Her Companions (Vermeer), 83, 87, 128–30, 131n, 152, 197

Diana at the Stag Hunt (Rubens), 78

Diana with Nymphs (Vermeer forgery), 219

Dickens, Charles, 110

Douglas, Michael, 75

Dresden, Germany, 99

Dresden Gallery museum, 57

Dressen, Charlie, 308n

Drewe, John, 70, 71–72, 73, 74, 115

Duchamp, Marcel, 144

Dufy, Raoul, 69

Myatt’s fakes, 69

Dunkirk, 12

Dürer, Albrecht, 115–16, 116, 147, 163, 251, 261, 306n

Dutton, Denis, 291, 322n

Duveen, Joseph (Duveen Brothers Gallery), 60, 89, 105, 119, 142, 309n

Andrew Mellon and, 108, 119, 188

Christ at Emmaus evaluated as fake by, 188–90, 190, 191, 192, 195, 199–200, 209, 230, 292

newfound “Vermeers” and, 105–6, 108, 305n

E

Early Netherlandish Painting (Friedländer), 119

Edison, Thomas A., 38

Een vroege Vermeer (van den Brandhof), 296n, 306n, 309n

Eisenhower, Dwight D., 258

El Greco. See Greco, El

Emmaus (Caravaggio), 165–66, 170, 171, 218

England

Amarna princess hoax, 292–93, 293

Nazi threat