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Vermeer’s Art of Painting and, 60–61, 255, 301n

Vermeer’s The Astronomer and, 64–65

Hitler Nobody Knows, The (Hoffman), 57

Hofer, Walter, 11, 78, 82, 84, 160, 260–61

Hoffman, Heinrich, 57, 61

Holbein, Hans, 25

Holland (Netherlands)

anti-pogrom strike in, 31–32

arrest and imprisonment of van Meegeren in, 3–5, 206, 263, 265–73

black market in Occupied, 40, 42

devastation of land during war, 219

Dutch army, 11

Dutch bureaucracy under the Nazis, 29

Dutch Nazi Party, 6

Dutch resistance, 4, 28, 40

escape from Nazis, problems of, 27–28

fate of Nazi collaborators in, 262–63, 270, 283

hiding of art masterpieces and attempts to keep from Nazis, 42–43, 219

history of art in, 95–96

Holland mania (desire for things Dutch), 89, 218

hunger winter (1944–1945), 7–9, 40–41

hunt for stolen art, post-war, 6–8, 262–63

invasion of (1940), 9–13

Jews in, 4, 28, 29, 30–32, 40

language, use of ij, 44n

Lentz’s registration system, 29

liberation, 262–63

Nazi collection of art treasures in, 41–43, 51

Nazi confiscation of bicycles, 40, 40n

Nazi Reich Commissar for, 27

Nazi reprisals, 40

Occupied, 6, 26–29, 40–43, 85–86

post-war provisional government, 6, 263

public opinion of van Meegeren, 288–89

seventeenth century (time of Vermeer), 86–87

Spanish occupation of, 86–87

timing of Van Meegeren’s forgeries and, 218–22

trial of Van Meegeren, 161, 162, 280–87, 321n

Vermeer popularity in, 85–86, 91–92

Hollander, Lorin, 241n

Hondius, Abraham, 278, 278

Hoogendijk, D. A., 198, 199, 200, 217, 283–84, 321n

Horace, 66n, 302n

Hoving, Thomas, 19, 20, 23–24, 66n, 229, 241, 302n, 309n, 316n, 318n

“fakebusting” by, 242

spots fake kouros, 240–41, 244

Howe, Thomas Carr, 303n

Hughes, Howard, 244–45

Huizinga, J. H., 95, 196n

Hunting Scene (Hondius), 278, 278

Huntington, Collis P., 90

Huntington, H. E., 188–89

I

I.G. Farben, 79

Illustrated London News, The, 275 “I’m OK, You’re Biased” (Gilbert), 316n

Impressionism, 36n

Ingres, Jean Auguste, Rothschild collection of, 64

Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, 72

Irving, Clifford, 244–45

Irving, David, 295n

Isaac Blessing Jacob (van Meegeren forgery), 161, 214, 217, 281, 284

Italy, art treasures taken by the Nazis, 7, 51, 255

J

Jan Vermeer of Delft (de Vries), 209

Jesus Teaching in the Temple (van Meegeren), 161, 272–75

Jeu de Paume, 63

Jews

art collection of Goudstikker, confiscation by Nazis, 12–13

art treasures of, confiscated, 61, 63

Dachau and Holocaust, 258, 295n

Dutch, fate in Occupied Holland, 4, 28, 30–32, 40

Dutch, highest proportion killed in

Europe, 30

Dutch, Lentz’s registration system and, 29

Joop Piller as, 4, 266

satiric comment on “master race” by, 52n

Johnson, Paul, 97

Juynboll, W. R., 310n

K

Kaiser Friedrich Museum, Berlin, 78, 118, 119

Keating, Tom, 23, 24

Keck, Sheldon, 38, 315n

Keegen, John, 295n

Kilbracken, Lord (John Godley), 194–95, 296n

Kirstein, Lincoln, 252, 253–54

Klaes, Pieter, 137

Kleinberger gallery, Paris, 142, 309n

Knoedler art dealers, 89

Koestler, Arthur, 322n

Kok, Jan, 284–85

Koomen, Pieter, 164, 165

Kosinski, Jerzy, 224n

Kraaijpoel, Diederik, 37, 47, 171, 175, 220, 238, 278, 295n, 317n

Kreuger, Frederik, 297n, 304n

Kronig, Joseph, 123, 181–82, 183–84, 312n

Küffner, Abraham, 115–16, 116n, 306n

Kunst dem Volk magazine, 61

Kunsthal, Rotterdam, 223

Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, 60, 310n

Kurz, Otto, 221

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Lacemaker (van Wijngaarden fake), 105–8, 109–11, 110n, 111n, 118, 119, 306n

Lacemaker, The (Vermeer), 83, 96, 97n, 106n, 168

bought by the Louvre, 187–88

Ladies Home Journal, 91

Lady and Gentleman at the Harpsichord (Van Meegeren fake Vermeer), 139–44, 149, 150, 179, 184, 186, 187, 190, 309n

Lady Professor of Bologna, A (attributed to Giorgione), 119n

Lady Seated at a Virginal (Vermeer), 171, 311n

Lady Writing (Vermeer), 90–91

Lady Writing a Letter with Her Maid, A (Vermeer), 97n, 134

Last Supper (Van Meegeren forgery), 214, 216, 281, 284, 286, 321n

attempts to argue for authenticity