The Mark Lane express, agricultural journal &c . ecent issue of the Revue Internationaldes Falsifications, published in. Paris, con-tains the first of a series of important papersby the editor, Charles Franche, on the manu-facture of counterfeit works of art. Many ofthe general statements made by M. Franchewith respect to the extent of this traffic arealready familiar to all readers of the dailypapers, but he adds to these statements a cer-tain number of specific cases of fraudulenttransactions which are of considerable interestto the public, and the Boston Transcripttranslates the interesting
The Mark Lane express, agricultural journal &c . ecent issue of the Revue Internationaldes Falsifications, published in. Paris, con-tains the first of a series of important papersby the editor, Charles Franche, on the manu-facture of counterfeit works of art. Many ofthe general statements made by M. Franchewith respect to the extent of this traffic arealready familiar to all readers of the dailypapers, but he adds to these statements a cer-tain number of specific cases of fraudulenttransactions which are of considerable interestto the public, and the Boston Transcripttranslates the interesting portions of hisarticle. M. Franche avers that a number ofestablishments exist in Paris, where an armyof copyists are employed in the manufactureof bogus pictures. He recalls the famoussale jof the San Donato collection in 1870, atwhich, among other counterfeit works cata-logued and sold as (genuine pictures, threeso-called examples of Paul Delaroche were dis-posed of for not less than £5,000. Thesethree pictures were copies, two of which were.
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