Corot: Forgeries

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Atlantic, Dec. 2004, p. 187

Jean Baptiste Camille Corot ranks among the greatest victims of forgery in the history of art. It has been said that he painted 2,000 pictures -- of which 10,000 are in the United States.

[The British Museum once featured an exhibit consisting of nothing but forgeries, spanning three millennia.]

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01/01/2009
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