Word: ferroni
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harry J. Hahn of Kansas City had been unable to prove that her heirloom painting was a Leonardo, or that Sir Joseph was guilty of slander when he pronounced it only a graceless copy of Leonardo's La Belle Ferroniére in the Louvre (TIME, Feb. 18 et seq.). Therefore she could not extract $500,000 damages from Sir Joseph. He, on the other hand, had failed to impress the jury with his opinions. Therefore he could not feel the pride appropriate to an international art tycoon...
...painting of a buxom brunette called La Belle Ferronière was still displayed, last week, in a Manhattan courtroom. Was it the work of Leonardo da Vinci? To this question Georges Sortais, French connoisseur, had answered YES, and the owner of the painting, Mrs. Harry J. Hahn of Kansas City, had believed him. But Sir Joseph Duveen, potent millionaire art dealer, had murmured NO, thus preventing the sale of the painting to the Kansas City art museum. Therefore Mrs. Hahn had sued Sir Joseph for $500,000 (TIME, Feb. 18). The trial involved comparisons with the famed and very...
...Louvre was the famed La Belle Ferronière (The Blacksmith's Daughter), most often attributed to Leonardo and almost identical with the Lardoux portrait. Thus Connoisseur Sortais' dictum implied that Leonardo had painted this subject twice. But, since the Louvre painting disappeared in 1848 and later reappeared, there loomed other suspicions. Perhaps the Louvre Belle was a fake. Perhaps the Lardoux Belle was the genuine Leonardo. Perhaps both were by minor artists. Apart from dogmatic critical opinions there was no evidence to show that Leonardo had painted either Belle...
...twitched and his mobile eyebrows performed a stately and scornful ascension. "The picture," he declared, "is a copy, hundreds of which have been made of this and other Leonardo subjects and offered in the market as genuine. Leonardo never made a replica of his work. His original La Belle Ferronière is in the Louvre...
...upon the CRIMSON reporter the document reprinted below. Except for the fact that only one receipt is listed, against many disbursments, the paper might appear to be a personal cash account. Room at Hotel Woodstock $ 5.00 Telephoned home 12 times 11.30 Repairs to dignity (especially trousers) 6.50 Taxi to Ferroni's 2.10 Refreshments at Ferroni's 20.00 A6. A8, Booth Theatre 17.00 Taxi to Booth Theatre 3.20 Lady in A4, Booth Theatre (settled out of court) 23.40 Lady in A8, Booth Theatre (Heart Balm) 7.70 Taxi to Madison Avenue and 84th St. 1.40 1 Pane glass (billed) 2.15 1 Broken...