Paul-Jean TOULET. Autograph manuscript signed, Les faux du Louvre, [1907]; 2pages in-4.
Amusing article on false attributions, about the Chardin-Fragonard exhibition (Galerie Georges Petit, June-July 1907). This article appears to be unpublished; it has not been collected in Notes d'art. The manuscript, in violet ink, contains a number of erasures and corrections.Toulet ironizes about the authentication by an oculist of the replica of Chardin's L'Enfant au toton. This oculist, M. L., is "considered a good expert by many people, including the most illustrious of our Impressionist painters". He recalls Chardin's low rating "towards the middle of the last century [...] hardly encouraging for a forger; [...] the public likes to imagine that all the paintings in the Louvre come from an underground factory in Batignolles"; and the Louvre is "largely a gigantic fake, commissioned by Napoleon III", and the Under-Secretary for Fine Arts Dujardin-Beaumetz himself is only a fake, the real one being sequestered...
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