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Nearly five years after the original charge was made, a court in Fontainebleau, France, found Painter Jean François Millet's grandson Jean Charles guilty of forging canvases, selling them to foreigners as the work of Grandfather Millet, Monet, Sisley, Pissarro (TIME, May 19, 1930; Feb.11). Grandson Millet and his partner in forgery were sentenced to six months in jail, fined 500 francs ($33) each, ordered to pay a total of 120,000 francs to the dealer who brought the charge. Carefully suppressed was evidence as to how many pictures were forged and who paid how much...
...included 18 miniatures by Jean & François Clouet; 75 by the 18th Century's master miniaturist, Jean Baptiste Jacques Augustin; 56 by the British master, Richard Cosway; and one called Group of Five Persons in a Landscape said to be the only miniature ever painted by Jean Antoine Watteau. Prize of the collection is The Armada Jewel, a minuscule painting sent by Queen Elizabeth to Sir Francis Walsingham, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, for his help in outfitting the English fleet that defeated Spain. The jewel's face bears a gold relief profile bust...
...Greco's St. Ildefonso, Writing was owned years ago, before modernist painters had made the great Spanish mystic their particular hero and driven his prices sky high, by Artists Jean François Millet and Edouard...
Aged 41. He was playing with the Comedie Française when the War came. After four years' service as an infantry officer, he returned to the stage, was made a life member in the Comedie. Irked by that august organization's politics, he found in 1926 that it was harder to get out than to get in. He bought himself free with a 200,000-franc settlement. His record: more appearances in de Musset than any other actor...
...even more blatant forger was discovered in Paris fortnight ago in the person of Professor Andre Mailfert. For years he has lectured about the so-called ''Loire School" of 18th Century provincial furniture of inlaid lemon wood. Its leader, he said, was a certain Jean François Hardy. Hoping to attract attention to the real qualities of his lemon-wood masterpieces. Professor Mailfert deliberately admitted that he had not only invented Cabinetmaker Hardy, but during the past five years had kept a factory of 200 workmen busy turning out the entire product of the "Loire School." Only...