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Eyck, Jan van

Rothschild collection of, 64

Adoration of the Lamb, 254, 254n

F

Fabritius, Carel, 86n, 169n

False Impressions: The Hunt for Big-Time Art Fakes (Hoving), 302n, 309n

Feliciano, Hector, 51

Festinger, Leon, 226, 316n

First Steps (Millet, Van Gogh), 68, 68

Flanner, Janet, 53, 66, 249

Fogg Art Museum, 250

Forbes, Norman (Forbes and Peterson Gallery), 129

forgery

“accessible artists” as likely targets for, 25

antiquity of, 66, 66n

approach of the forger, 21

art prices and, 66

basics of, 22–25

Bolton, En gland, Amarna princess hoax, 292–93, 293

canvas, dating of, 168

canvas stretchers, 168–69, 168n

catching of forgers, 264

charges of, experts’ reluctance to make, 224–25, 224n, 316n

Christ at Emmaus, crafting of, 167–69, 173–78

craft of, 19–21

craquelure, creating, 173–78, 174, 277

current, 19

difficulty of, 25

expert support of, importance, 117–20, 145–49, 195–97

fooling the experts, 227–33, 232, 240–41, 242, 243–45, 285, 286, 291–93, 293

fox marks, 24

Getty Museum kouros buy, 240–41, 244

ink, 24–25

Irving hoax, 244–45

lifespan of forgeries, 221–22, 222n

as male profession, 21n

“missing link” approach, 151–53, 151n, 164

motives for, 66

Myatt’s observations on, 66–76

myth about forgers, 18

oil paintings, 25, 33–39, 45–47, 113, 117, 277 (see also paint, oil)

old masters forged, 35, 221–22

Piltdown Man hoax, 152–53, 310n

problem of escaping their own era in style, 111, 112, 306n

provenance and, 25, 71–72, 75n, 115–17, 242, 292, 306n

random damage to forgeries, techniques of, 178

scientific detection of, 19–20, 113, 117, 269–70, 276–79

signatures, faking of, 67, 100, 124, 151, 171–72, 192–93, 195

simulating age, 22–25, 33–39, 45–47, 74–75, 173–78, 173n, 277

techniques to “prove” authenticity, 34n, 73

test of an old master, 35

the Uncanny Valley and, 132–36, 144, 150

undetected, 222n

Van Meegeren’s strategy, 136, 137–38, 151, 164–66, 194–95, 215–16

Van Wijngaarden’s strategy, 109–14

wormhole problem, 23–24

Fowles, Edward, 142, 189, 190, 309n

France

art treasures taken by the Nazis, 7

escape from occupied, 28

Jews of, confiscation of property by

Nazis, 63–64, 64n

Nazi invasion of, 9, 11

percentage of French Jews killed, 30n

resistance in occupied, 28

France, Anatole, vii

Frank, Anne, 30, 31, 32

Frankfort, Germany, 262

Franzen, Jonathan, 136, 308n

Frick, Henry, 90, 125n

Frick Collection (Museum), 90, 125, 242

Friedländer, Max, 119, 316n

Fukuyama, Francis, 316n

G

Gardner, Isabella Stewart, 89–90, 100n

Gaskell, Ivan, 59

Geographer, The (Vermeer), 64, 64n, 83, 94

George III, King of En gland, 98

Germany, Nazi-controlled

Afrika Corps, 62

art agents for, 42

art hidden in, 249–61, 262

art mania of, 92

art treasures taken by, 6–8, 11, 13, 42–43, 51, 60–61, 63, 63n, 160, 251, 253, 255

atrocities, 26

Berlin Olympics, 167

collapse of Nazi regime, 249, 257

En gland as target of, 10

fate of collaborators, 253, 253n, 262–63

invasion of Holland, 9–13

Luftwaffe, 10, 11, 52–53, 255

miscalculation about the Dutch, 26–27

recovery of art looted by, 209, 249–62

Rothschild masterpieces taken by, 63–64

Russian front, 40, 62–63

spies and, 243

Vermeer popular in, 85

war against the Jews, 30–32

Gerritsen, Jan, 133, 308n

Getty Museum, 240–41, 244

Getty Research Institute, 305n

Ghiselin, Michael, 224

Giacometti, Alberto, 75

Myatt’s forgeries of, 67, 69, 73, 73n, 75n

Gilbert, Daniel, 226, 316n

Gilbert, G. M., 80–81, 81n

Gilot, Françoise, 67

Giltaij, Jeroen, 213–14

Gimpel, René, 105

Giorgione, 119n

Girl Asleep at a Table (Vermeer), 134, 171, 311n

Girl Interrupted at her Music (Vermeer), 90

Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window (Vermeer), 134

Girl with a Pearl Earring (Vermeer), 17, 33, 37, 83, 87, 88, 88n, 96, 121, 140n, 174, 209, 231

Rols’ copy, 45n

Girl with a Red Hat (Vermeer), 107, 134, 134n, 169n

Gladwell, Malcolm, 240, 297n, 318n

Glass of Wine, The (Vermeer) 134, 171

Goebbels,