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Twenty-one days of trial, 590,000 words of testimony and 14 hours of deliberation by the jury ended in a deadlock. Neither side was able to produce absolute evidence to prove that either Mme Halm's or the Louvre's Belle was from the brush of Leonardo. Sir Joseph was technically exonerated, but the trial did his reputation no good. An appeal was started, suddenly dropped. Two rumors persisted: 1) that Sir Joseph Duveen had bought Mme Hahn off; 2) that the suggestions of Sir Joseph's business methods when faced by an important art sale...
...Hahn reappeared in the New York Press, with every phrase of the art expert's vocabulary at the tip of his tongue. Mr. Hahn was ready to damn Lord Duveen anew and present a trunkful of new evidence to prove that his wife's painting was the Leonardo masterpiece. He said he would shortly publish a book entitled Andrée Hahn versus Sir Joseph Duveen...
...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 in 1523, unknown in Italy for 20 years more. Leonardo da Vinci died...
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...