Word: watteaus
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There is no kind of artwork that has not been forged, from Cycladic idols to Watteaus, from medieval manuscripts to rococo porcelain elephants, from Michelangelo drawings to paintings by Constable, Picasso or (a great favorite) Renoir. It used to be said that Camille Corot painted 800 pictures in his lifetime, of which 4,000 ended up in American collections...
...exhibition that dealt with this theme at full stretch would have to include Giorgione's Tempest and his (or Titian's) Concert Champetre, Botticelli's Primavera, Titian's Sacred and Profane Love, Giovanni Bellini's Feast of the Gods, plus any amount of Rubenses, Poussins, Annibale Carraccis, Claudes, Watteaus, Turners and Matisses, not to mention Manet's Dejeuner sur l'Herbe and Seurat's Grande Jatte...
...Bernet could hold an auction every week for a year- and each sale would make news. Curators of the Louvre and the Met can only drool at the accumulations of Egyptian sculpture, Louis XV and XVI furniture, Sevres porcelain, 16th century enamelware, and wall upon wall of Goyas, Rubenses, Watteaus and Fragonards. When Philippe and Pauline have tea, their dog Bicouille is sometimes served a snack off an aluminum dish placed upon a napkin spread over their expensive rugs. Says Pauline: "We are fortunate, of course, in that we can take ten or twelve servants when we travel, and thus...
...like something out of Harper's Magazine. The Beast is not really beastly, merely unpleasant: Emmet Booth is nearly 50, short, balding, a self-made millionaire of lowly origins whose monster of an inferiority feeling must be appeased by constant sacrifices. Unsatiated by business triumphs and carloads of Watteaus, it now demands Miranda...
...Lecturers took whole platoons of sightseers through, speaking in sibilant whispers, and on the rim of every cluster gallerygoers jostled to see & hear. But no one could take in everything-the 15 Rembrandts, six Rubens, five Botticellis, the Bruegels, Vermeers, three Raphaels, five Jan van Eycks, five Titians, three Watteaus, the Holbeins, Diirers, Hals and the Velasquez...