Word: hahn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Louis Cardinals, under their new manager, Frank Frisch, who last week replaced Charles Evard ("Gabby") Street: a baseball game against the Chicago Cubs, 8 to 2; in which Pitcher Jerome ("Dizzy") Dean struck out 17 Chicago batters, one more than the modern record which was jointly held by Frank Hahn, Christy Mathewson, Rube Waddell and Nap Rucker; and in which his catcher, Jimmy Wilson, was enabled to make a record also, with 18 putouts; at St. Louis. Manager Frisch's oldtime rival, Rogers Hornsby, this year his understudy on the Cardinals, last week left the team to become manager...
Lips. The Hahn lady's lips are red with a dye from the "Kermes berry." Kermes is not a berry at all but a bug - a reddish, wingless female insect, relative to the cochineal of Mexico, that lays its eggs on oak leaves throughout southern Europe. The insects are killed in a vapor of hot vinegar, dried, and ground for pigment. It takes 10 to 12 lb. of kermes to produce as red a color as one pound of cochineal. The Louvre lady's lips are of cochineal, unknown in Europe before Cortes brought it back...
Hands. The Hahn picture is the same width as the Louvre painting, but 7½ inches shorter. In 1752, the first descriptive catalog of the royal picture gallery described a woman in red, by Leonardo, "holding a piece of lace in her hands." Measurements of this picture are the same as those of the present Louvre portrait which has no hands. The supposition is that when the Hahn portrait was transferred from wood to canvas in 1777,* the 7½ inches at the bottom containing the hands...
Rothschild Foundation. All these things tended to show that the Louvre portrait is not the original Leonardo, as Louvre authorities have long admitted. What Harry Hahn was looking for was some document indicating that his portrait had once belonged to the royal collection of Louis XVI. He found that this winter in the great art library of the Salomon Rothschild Foundation in Paris: a memoir written by an official Louvre expert in 1847 showing that La Belle Ferronnière, which had been one of the King's pictures at Versailles, was sold by Revolutionary Architect General Auguste...
...time of the Hahn-Duveen trial, the Hahn portrait's ownership had already been traced back to the same General Tourton, banker for the Revolutionary Government...