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La Tour, Georges de, 145

Leda (Leonardo da Vinci), 61

Lentz, Jacob, 29

Leonard, Stewart, 289

Leonardo da Vinci, 61, 136, 251

Lessing, Alfred, 291

Life magazine, 244–45

Linz, Austria, 51, 56, 57–58, 60, 61

Lipstadt, Deborah, 296n

“Literature and Art” (Bredius), 197

Little Street, The (Vermeer), 95, 99

Lives of the Artists (Vasari), 24

Loebl, Allen, 142, 309n

Lopez, Jonathan, 321n

Louvre

Rothschild collection, 63

Vermeers in, 97n, 106n, 148, 187–88

Love Letter (Vermeer), 202

Lovely Bones, The (Mendelsohn), 219–20

Lowell, Percival, 227n

Lufthansa, 79

Luitwieler, H. G., 156, 204–6, 206n, 292

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Maandblad voor Beeldende Kunsten, 164

Maass, Walter, 11, 26, 28, 41

Maastricht, Holland, 219

Madame Charpentier and Her Children (Renoir), 242

Madonna and Child (Michelangelo), 254

Madonna of Divine Love (Raphael), 255

Maes, Nicholaes, 128

Manchester, William, 12

Manet, Édouard, 251

Mannheimer, Fritz, 143, 150, 309n

Marquand, Henry, 90

Martin, Willem, 118, 130, 198, 309n

Mary Magdalene Under the Cross (fake Vermeer, attributed to Tournier), 148–49, 310n

Masterman, Sir John, 243

Master Pieces (Hoving), 241–42

Matisse, Henri

forged works, 34

Myatt’s fakes, 67, 70

Mauritshuis Museum, The Hague, 92, 118, 127, 128, 198, 309n

Vermeer paintings in, 87, 88, 88n, 129

Vermeer show (1996), 45n, 133

McCormick, Anne O’Hare, 219

McGraw-Hill publishers, 244–45

Mellon, Andrew, 45, 60

Duveen Brothers gallery and, 108, 119, 188

National Gallery of Art founded by, 107–8, 188

“Vermeers” bought by, 107, 109–11, 118, 119, 140n, 306n

Mendelsohn, Daniel, 219–20

Menzel-Joseph, James, 251

Merkers, Germany, 250

salt mine and Nazi’s hidden art, 250–51

Merry Cavalier (Hals), 112

Merry Cavalier (van Wijngaarden fake Hals), 112–14, 116–17, 306n

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 19, 20, 23, 148, 222n, 224, 242, 259

Allegory of Faith in, 127

Dutch masterpieces show, 91

first American Vermeer, Woman with a Water Jug, 90, 110n

Monuments Men from, 250

Vermeers acquired for, 90

Watson Library, 305n

Metsu, Jacques, 98

Michelangelo, 146, 193, 242, 254

copies by, 24

Morgan collection, 90

Vermeer evaluation of, 94

Miedl, Alois, 84, 264, 265, 303n, 320n

Militair Gezag (provisional government), Holland, 6, 263

Milkmaid, The (Vermeer), 17, 64, 83, 88n, 91–92, 96, 99, 152, 169, 171, 187, 209

Millet, Jean François, 68

Cornfield, 302n

First Steps, 68

Miró, Joán: Myatt’s fakes, 74

Modigliani, Amedeo

forgeries of, 23

Myatt’s forgery of, 67

Monaco, 121, 139, 181, 182, 183

Mondrian, Piet, 14

Myatt’s forgery of, 67

Monet, Claude, 74

Myatt’s forgeries of, 67–68, 74

Montgomery, Bernard Law, 1st Viscount, 62

Montias, J. M., 95, 131

Monuments Men, 249–55, 259, 289, 303n

Moore, Bob, 29

Morgan, J. P., 89, 92

art collection, 90–91, 303n

Mori, Masahiro, 135

Mosley, Leonard, 77, 80

Motley, John Lothrop, 86

Moynihan, Daniel, 227, 316n

Mühlmann, Kajetan, 42

Munich, Germany, 116

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 83n

Music Lesson, The (Vermeer), 171

Mussolini, Benito, 52

Myatt, John, 66–76

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National Art Library, Victoria and Albert Museum, 72–73

National Gallery, London, 35, 148, 216

National Gallery, Washington DC, 23, 131, 188, 299n, 319n

forgeries in, 45, 108, 111, 140n

Mellon’s collection and, 107–8

Monuments Men from, 250

Netherlands Institute for Art History, 122

Netscher, Caspar, 127

Newkirk, Raymond, 259

“Newly Discovered Vermeer, A” (Valentiner), 109

“New Vermeer, A” (Bredius), 192–93

New York City Ballet, 252

New York Times, 219, 260, 281, 316n

Nice, France, Van Meegeren’s studio in, 5, 277–78

Nicholas, Lynn, 41–42, 58, 60, 78, 296n, 303n

Night Watch, The (Rembrandt), 170, 198, 219

“normal accident,” 292, 322n

Norway

escape from occupied, 28

resistance in occupied, 28

“Notes on Nationalism” (Orwell), 316n

NRC Handelsblad, 133, 295n, 308n, 312n

Nuremberg, Germany, 115–16

trials, Goering and, 7, 13, 65, 80, 81, 289

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On Art and Connoisseurship (Friedländer), 119

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