FRENCH ART
MANY FRAUDS ALLEGED. PARIS, May 50. The Society for the Protection of French Art makes a series of astonishing charges against the authorities at the Louvre. It is asserted that they recently purchased at fantasic prices works of very doufcful authenticity. Thus an ancient bas relief representing the Annunciation, which an American art dealer sold to the Louvre for 1,250,009 francs, really consists of a number of fragments of old marble which were bought for a few francs, put together, and restored by a clever modern sculptor. The society also alleges that a picture of the Virgin, dating from the time of St. Louis, was stolen from the church and replaced by a modern copy. The society adds that for 20 years a gang of thieves has been robbing the provincial churches and substituting copies of old pictures and statues.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3612, 5 June 1923, Page 41
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142FRENCH ART Otago Witness, Issue 3612, 5 June 1923, Page 41
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