LONDON.- A painting that supposedly was made by Han van Meegeren, one of the most notable forgers of all time, dates, from the XVII Century and might have even hung in Johannes Vermeer’s house, according to the Art Newspaper.
The painting is titled The Procuress and is housed at the Courtauld Institute in London, which accepted it in 1960 as a donation from Professor Geoffrey Webb, a specialist in historic architecture.
Webb, who worked in Germany after World War II, had received it as a gift for his help in the returning of works of art to rightful owners.
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The painting represents three characters, the Procuress, the character on the right that points with his finger at the other hand as if fixing a price, while in the middle, a man talks to the smiling prostitute beside him, in his arms.
See the full article from “Art Daily”
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