GRAVE CHARGES.
PROTECTING FRENCH ART. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSN.—COPYRIGHT Paris, May 30. The Society for the Protection or French Art makes a series of astonishing charges against the authorities of the Louvre. They say they recently purchased, at fantastic prices, works of very doubtful authenticity. Thus an ancient has relief representing the Annunciation, which an American an dealer sold to the Louvre for 1,250,000 francs, is really a number of fragments of old marble 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 a church, and replaced by a modern copy. The Society adds "that for twenty years a gang of thieves lias been robbing provincial churches and substituting copies for old pictures and statues.—A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, Issue 18084, 1 June 1923, Page 7
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