The Forger's Spell - Edward Dolnick [167]
Orwell, George, 316n
Oster, Hans, 9, 9n
Oud Holland art magazine, 203, 215
Ovary of Eve, The (Pinto-Correia), 317n
Owens, Jesse, 167
P
paint, oil
black, pigments for, 36
canvas and, 175–76, 177
cobalt blue, 277
craquelure, 173–78, 174, 204, 277, 311n
creating color, 175
difficulty of preparation, 37
drying, 33–36, 169
forgeries detected by age of, 113
hardness of dried, 169
metal tubes of, use of, 36, 36n
oils used for, 36–37, 46, 46n
red, 34
removing from old canvas, 169
seventeenth century techniques, 175
testing age of, 35, 113
traditional method of making, 34–35, 36
ultramarine blue, 34, 36, 113, 277
zinc white, 113
Palmer, Mary-Lisa, 75n
Patton, Gen. George, 249, 250, 252
Perrow, Charles, 322n
Petiot, Marcel, 281
Phaedrus, 66n, 302n
Philip II, King of Spain, 86
Picasso, Pablo, 144
Demoiselles d’Avignon, 14]
forgeries of, 24
Myatt’s fakes, 67, 70
Pijbes, Wim, 138, 223
Pilgrims at Emmaus (Vermeer forgery), 219
Piller, Joop, 295n
Goudstikker’s art gallery as headquarters, 265, 269, 270, 273, 276
hunt for stolen art in Holland, 6–8, 262–63
new painting by Van Meegeren as proof, 272–75
suffering of, 7–8, 266
Van Meegeren and, 4, 265–73, 283, 315n
Piltdown Man, 152–53, 310n
Pinker, Steven, 316n
Pinto-Correia, Clara, 317n
Plietzsch, Eduard, 119, 143, 149
Poland
art treasures taken by the Nazis, 7
Nazi invasion and occupation of, 9, 27
resistance in occupied, 28
Polish Rider (Rembrandt), 121, 125, 125n, 126
Pollack, Jackson, 151
Porter, Kingsley, 252
Portrait of Dr. Gachet (Van Gogh), 71
Portrait of an Elderly Man (Rembrandt), 141n
Posey, Capt. Robert, 252–55, 254n
Posse, Hans, 57–58
Praxiteles, 66n
Presser, Jacob, 13
Private Eye magazine, 70
Procuress, The (van Baburen), 82–83, 83n, 311n
Procuress, The (Vermeer), 58, 82–83, 83n, 93n, 94, 99, 130
“Pseudo-Vermeer in the Berlin Gallery, A” (Bredius), 123
R
Raising of Lazarus, The (canvas and stretcher used for Christ at Emmaus forgery), 168–69, 168n, 277–78, 311n
Rape of Europa, The (Nicholas), 60, 296n
Raphael, Raffaello Santi, 193, 251, 255
paintings in Goudstikker collection, 12
Rothschild collection of, 64
Vermeer evaluation of, 94
Rauta, Max, 264
Rave, Paul, 251
Read, Herbert, 195
Reemtsa, Philip, 60, 61, 301n
Rembrandt: The Complete Edition of His Paintings (Bredius), 144
Rembrandt Research Project, 19–20, 125n, 237
Rembrandt Society, 186–87, 198, 201
Rembrandt van Rijn, 85, 96–97, 98, 124, 137, 141n, 144, 146, 163, 170
authenticity of paintings by, 19–20, 20n, 61n, 112
Bredius discovers paintings by, 121
forgeries of, 25, 122, 138
Metropolitan collection, 91
mistakes and clumsy executions in, 237, 237
Morgan collection, 90
paintings hidden during Nazi occupation, 219, 255, 261
paintings in Goudstikker collection, 12
paintings owned by Goering, 12, 261
paintings owned by Hitler, 61
Rothschild collection of, 64
self-portraits, 93, 304n
Renoir, Auguste, 36n, 242
Myatt’s forgery of, 67
Responses to Rembrandt (Bailey), 125
Riefenstahl, Leni, 167
Rienstra van Stuyvesande, P. J., 263–64, 320n
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 88n, 92, 133, 187, 190, 206, 268, 280, 290
attempt to buy Christ at Emmaus forgery, 201–2, 314n
purchase of forged Vermeer, 217, 284
Rol, Henricus, 44–45, 45n
Rommel, Erwin, 62
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 52, 107
Roquebrune, France, 5, 46, 139, 167, 186
Rorimer, James, 259
Rothschild family
art collection recovered, 255
art collection stolen, 63–64
Rotterdam, Holland, 146
art rivals in, 146–48, 147, 216, 284
bombing of, 11, 12
forgery show in, 133, 138
new Boymans Musuem in, 148
Rousseau, Theodore, 222n, 224
Rubens, Peter Paul, 163, 255
paintings in Goudstikker collection, 12
paintings owned by Goering, 12, 13, 78
Rothschild collection of, 64
Russia
Battle of Stalin grad, 62–63
Nazi attack on, 40
Rustic Cottage (erroneously attributed to Vermeer), 99, 123–24
S
Saint Praxedis (attributed to Vermeer), 142