New-York tribune., 1910-12-26
count CHANGES FRONT
When Trying to Sell or Borrnx
Here Vouched for Paintino,
STATEMENTS IN CATaL0Gue
Vain1y Tried to Get $40 f,nn
from Vanderbilts on His
"Old Masters

| ViU MdSteES.
Count Aulby de Gatisny on sasrr.,-
at his trial at Tours. France, for cons,-
ing 10 defraud the DUcresse a. cno,,.s,,
Praslfn out of $4,000 in the sal. o, ,,.,
rious paintings declared he had 49,.
guaranteed the authenticity Of III. n,c.,..-
he offered for sale. but relied larx.,y -
! the opinion of American ar. Experts
This statement was not borne our bv
ords isf. behind By the Count ys.r =
departed from New York after an mas
cessfuI effort TO sell his collection or -
row money on it
The count" also told on Saturday :,
paying $1,000 in customs duties so srs-
lis pictures into this country This -
already told in The Tribune On Frida~ :
an account OF the counts doinvs uss-
| In this city and was true. although he Ia,.-
tried TO get back the money.
Certain records at band show that ar..u
EdouaTd Corte d Aulby." as the acru..s
man called himself when he vas h.-. :
1895. was personally responsible for sha a.
counts Of his pictures, for ne furnished y.
history of each canvas in a typsvrt,,.-
catalogue.
The count was a voiuble person. ,,s
succeeded in making many Americans -.
lieve his representations
The catalogue Of Count d'AuIoys' ss
came an interesting document becaus. =,
it several Of the paintings which have rs-
ured in the case against him in Franc.
were described One Of these vas Diam
at the Bath" by Titan" or this cau~as
the count" said:
This has been ACKNOWLEDGED by NAM A.
lovers and competent conncfsseurs as TIA
second chef-d'euvTe Of this great tdealss..
that is 10 say. after his Three G-acss'
the finest Of his works, although 10 sha
,Ininitiated very many Of the same masters
works would in all probability appeal mers
strongly This subjsc1, termed The Stud
in Curves has scarcely. II ever, been
rivalIed as a reproduction Of flesh tints and
in it's extraordinary methods OF drawing
the human figure AS a great nasterpsec.
of genre painting il has been acknowIedssd
fauItless"
"Pictures Of Historic VaIus.-
This entry in the catalogue Of Count
d d'AuIby was one Of those marked with An
'cx,'' which, according to an explanatory
note in his own handwriting. meant:
THE pictures marked with an .X' are Of
cataIogued-''
tiope." "hy Sir Joshua Reynolds (af.e-
Correggio). The count described il as ioI-
lows:
This large canvas is a ma magnifcent rep
1ica of Correzsfo's chef-d' osuvre, now in The
Louvre, Paris, where 1t was placsd by Na-
poleon. King George having visited the
r o,1x-re 1r,- xo fascinated --frh rFfs S-1ns-r
creation that he commanded his cour-
painter, Sir Joshua Reynolds, to make such
copy that none could tell which was
which in point OF authorship The paint
ing teens with beauties. and the fact that
1t is the copy Of CorreSgio's greatest work
by perhaps the greatest OF English masters
gives it unique place in the picture world
There were also in the list "NoM me Tan
gere," "by Guido: Christ Before Plate
'by Honthorst," "the last one added TO the
d. Aulby collection: ''Renbrandt's Mother.
by Rembrandt, and The Smoker. ghy
Halls ---~
One of the believers IN the senUineness O.
the count and OF his paintings vas
friend of the Vanderbilt family. whom
d.AuIby met here. and who interested him
self in a vain effort to obtain for the
count" a loan of $4,000 on his collection
This champion of ''Count d Aulhy.. In
writing about the desired loan. said, refer
ring to FIVE OF the paintings:
The above five are great works the gems
of the collection. They were worth over
half a million. and Mr. is confident
that they can be sold here for saso.Gss- M
is of the same opinion They would
fetch double that in London
Despite the latter statement about the
market for the pictures IN London, the 1aet
was that they had been brought here rom
Europe not long before.
Referring to a MurilIo. the same mar
said that a replica OF this canvas was on
exhibition in the DulHich Gallery and vas
valued at f7.Ooo.
4 curious difference of opinion arose o.
tween Count d-AuIby and an expert VINO
was called in to value the collection The
count said the painting, Head Of an Ola
Man. was by Rembrandt.
The Count Absolutely Sure.
The expert insisted It was a vslasouez.
This difference of opinion was. in fact.
amusing, because the count represeHte'
that his great-grandfather was DaneL
Daulby, art author and collector ana
Of Rembrandt
1t seems rh4r even 5C us JlArrS O. NAe
visit OF Count d'AuI5y TO New York there
was some question about his identity ard
OF the genuineness of his art collection
In another letter written by the counts
friends apropos Of the loan he took excsp-
ton to the report of the expert sent 70
view the pictures by the man who was 70
advance the $4,000. The trusting friend O.
the count" said that the expert was sn-
tirely ignorant of how pictures are authen-
ticated' The Counts" friend. urdouot-
edly on the word of Aulby himself. added
this bit of information:
s'Now, as 20 its being . fraud th.rs .
a firm Of lawyers. one OF tbs hrsc - He
city, who have the complete evidence g
the identity of Count d'Aulby. ard ".
guarantee that identity. The struggles o
Prince Borghese. his father. and one O. %
sons TO rescue their property when tne
father, without conipulsior, had nno-rgaseo
IL TO pay his creditors. having 20 &c,
law passed TO enable him TO give them sH.s
security, and from pure honesty. are w
known matters Of history. which may -
verified from newspaper files