RenÃ© Huyghe demonstrated that over 2,100 works attributed to this painter in the Jousseaume collection were forgeries, and Huyghe also quipped that this artist "painted 3,000 canvases, 10,000 of which have been sold in America."
RenÃ© Huyghe demonstrated that over 2,100 works attributed to this painter in the Jousseaume collection were forgeries, and Huyghe also quipped that this artist "painted 3,000 canvases, 10,000 of which have been sold in America." Forgers often took advantage of the gaps in the catalogue raissonÃ© of his works by Alfred Robaut and Ã‰tienne Moreau-NÃ©laton. His paintings of young women reading include one in which the subject has been "interrupted" from reading and holds the book in her lap. This artist re-used a study of oak trees at (*) Bas-Breau for his painting Hagar in the Wilderness. In his mature period he began painting "souvenir" landscapes drawn from memory of places like Castel Gandolfo and Mortefontaine.  During one of his trips to Italy, this artist painted a landscape with the broken remnants of the Ponte di Augusto. For 10 points, name this French Realist of the Barbizon school, who painted The Bridge at Narni.
RenÃ© Huyghe demonstrated that over 2,100 works attributed to this painter in the Jousseaume collection were forgeries, and Huyghe also quipped that this artist "painted 3,000 canvases, 10,000 of which have been sold in America."
Camille Corot [or Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot]