Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-04-11

was gone over inch by inch.
When it was returned to Karin Hail. Goering's pal
ace II was with this announcement
This is not the genuine Alteration Of the Lamb
II is instead a copy. very excellent copy but
still copy. We find inquiry that certain panels
Of the Alteration undoubtedly the originals, are
now in the possession of His Excellency Herr Min
lister Of Public Information, Joseph Coebbels"
Hermann was very angry After he had verified
this information he madden still. 1t would have
been a bitter blow in any event. But when the
person who had succeeded where he had failed was
COebbe1s-weI It became a catastrophe.
How could he have been so outwitted? Evidently
Vichy hadn't known they sending him copies.
Goerng's mind turned back TO expert,
agent of his whom he had insnuated into the Louvre
FIVE years before this war began. His name was
Fritz Rosen but he had changed the Fritz to Jules,
and for those five years had been Technical. Adviser
to the Louvre Art Commission
He had passed pictures offered the Louvre.
He had also kept in condition pictures already owned
Monsieur Jules Rosen, or Herr Fritz Rosen, had
organized" according to his Berlin orders. He had
a workshop for cleaning old masters
over these years Rosen had ordered most Of the
paintings in the Louvre cleaned in his workshop.
Adjoining the workshop secret room, where
Italian copyis genius spent industrious days copy
ing Louvre masterpieces assigned him by Rosen.
Many times it was the replica and not the original
that went back 20 the Louvre.
This much Marshal Goering recalled then put
two and two together. In January. 1910 Client
Cathedral sent the Alteration to the Louvre TO be
stored for safekeepng.
OF course then Roscn had ordered the painting
cleaned And copied,
Obviously Little Joey Iump-Up" had jumped in
ahead of the Marshal and annexed the original
But although as a collector Herr Goering has
had his setbacks he also has had his triumphs Among
them the Louise de La Valliere davenport.
This is a item. The ebony and gold old
sofa-fauteuil of Louise who Of the early
mistresses of King Louis XIV of France belonged
with other Valliere furniture 70 Duchesse Marie
Therese Dues The Duchesse carried on, before
the war a very profitable antique business.
Among Gocrings "art-organizaton" in Paris was
an agent whose Hartmann, expert pack
or for art and antique moving house. Hartmann
had helped move the La Valliere furniture to the
Duchesse's apartments on the Rue Ferou, Paris The
items all nicely catalogued and photographed were
reported by him 90 Coerng, whose mouth watcrcd
when he saw photograph Of the sofa
Accordingly. day when the DuChcsse was
away Hartmann entered the Rue Ferou place. The
servants recognized him, and he explained that he
had been ordered 20 certain articles of furn-
tIrc.so there suspicion.
Later a van drove away containing old
furniture and Hartmann. Berlin their stop.
one day Goering met his good friend Banker
julius Beichroeder, also a collector but with diff
ference julius paid for his stuff.
Goering boosted of his sofa and julius smiled.
Sorry Hermann ~ but you've been done IN.
have that sofa. bought It from the Duchesse"
Il got mine from her too said Hermann, but
didn't pay for it. Therefore he added with peculiar
Nazi logic. u know it must be genuine
They compared sofas. And what do you think
Hermann was right. He did have the genuine one,
complete with plar-post beetles moth holes and all!
The thrifty Duchesse it seemed in the habit
Of having duplicates made of her originals What
the banker had bought was one of the duplicates.
Who says collectors life is a dull one I?
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