{"id":47393,"date":"2023-04-17T17:15:45","date_gmt":"2023-04-17T21:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/?p=47393"},"modified":"2024-01-30T06:03:04","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T11:03:04","slug":"the-laziest-fakes-goya-velasquez-forgeries-seized-in-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2023\/04\/the-laziest-fakes-goya-velasquez-forgeries-seized-in-spain\/","title":{"rendered":"The Laziest Fakes: Goya &#038; Vel\u00e1zquez Forgeries Seized In Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_47394\" style=\"width: 233px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Screenshot-2023-04-17-at-1.33.29-PM.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-47394\" class=\"wp-image-47394 \" src=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Screenshot-2023-04-17-at-1.33.29-PM-205x300.png\" alt=\"A bust-length portrait of a woman with a white mantle and a gold chain extending across her chest. She is expressionless, with very rosy cheeks and a wide, braided hairstyle decorated with pins and ribbons.\" width=\"223\" height=\"326\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Screenshot-2023-04-17-at-1.33.29-PM-205x300.png 205w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Screenshot-2023-04-17-at-1.33.29-PM.png 412w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 223px) 100vw, 223px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-47394\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Portrait of Mariana of Austria<\/em>, offered as the work of Diego Vel\u00e1zquez (courtesy of the Polic\u00eda de la Generalitat)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In Spain, the Historic Heritage division of Valencia\u2019s regional police seized five paintings said to be forgeries being passed off as originals by the Spanish masters Diego Vel\u00e1zquez and Francisco de Goya. The suspects involved attempted to sell the works for \u20ac76 million (or $84 million). The paintings came to the attention of investigators after the owners approached several prospective buyers in the cities of Valencia and Castell\u00f3n. While a story like this often includes loads of forensic content, with scientists analyzing pigment samples, brushstroke patterns, and provenance documents, none of that was necessary. In what might be one of the laziest examples of art forgery I\u2019ve ever heard, whoever created these paintings simply copied well-known portraits currently hanging in major museums today.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Art forgery is one of the lucrative criminal undertakings in Spain, often named in the same breath as the drug trade, weapons trafficking, and prostitution. I\u2019ve previously written about <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2023\/01\/spaniards-forgeries-finally-seized\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">confiscated forgeries<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and counterfeit rings broken up by Spanish authorities. Spain is a country that places an immense amount of pride in its <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2022\/12\/animosity-over-madrids-maninas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">national heritage<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and dedicates large amounts of government resources to trying to protect it. This fact, therefore, makes these forgeries all the more baffling. Even without doing too much work, a casual viewer might recognize one of the forgeries as a portrait of Mariana of Austria, wife of King Philip IV, which now hangs at the Palace of Versailles. The fake is a bust-length cropped version of the original that cuts out her dress\u2019s distinctive pannier hoop skirt. Vel\u00e1zquez executed <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/b\/bc\/Marie-Anne_d%27Autriche%2C_reine_d%27Espagne.jpg\/1024px-Marie-Anne_d%27Autriche%2C_reine_d%27Espagne.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the original work<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> around 1660 when the queen was 26-years-old. Though the 1660 portrait is not as iconic as Vel\u00e1zquez\u2019s full-length <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/d\/d8\/Mariana_of_Austria_%28Vel%C3%A1zquez%2C_c._1652%29.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">1653 portrait<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that now hangs at the Prado Museum, the queen\u2019s stoic expression, rosy cheeks, and wide, braided hairstyle are equally as distinctive as the queen\u2019s dress. The suspects were asking for \u20ac50 million just for the Mariana portrait.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_47395\" style=\"width: 327px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/merge_from_ofoct.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-47395\" class=\"wp-image-47395\" src=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/merge_from_ofoct-300x210.jpg\" alt=\"Two portraits of a man and a woman in eighteenth-century dress both standing outside.\" width=\"317\" height=\"222\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/merge_from_ofoct-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/merge_from_ofoct-1024x717.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/merge_from_ofoct-768x538.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/merge_from_ofoct-1536x1076.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/merge_from_ofoct.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 317px) 100vw, 317px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-47395\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The original 1765 portraits of the prince and princess of Asturias, future King Charles IV and Queen Mar\u00eda Luisa by Anton Raphael Mengs<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The scammers passed off the other four works as originals by Francisco de Goya, who initially established himself as a painter for the court of King Charles IV. Portraits of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/pecadosdelarte.com\/galerias-noticias\/galerias\/437\/437.goya2.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Charles IV<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and his wife <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/pecadosdelarte.com\/galerias-noticias\/galerias\/437\/437.goya1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mar\u00eda Luisa of Parma<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> were among the seized paintings. There were just a few problems with them, though. Like the Mariana portrait, these two are nothing but cropped, bust-length copies of the original, full-length paintings, both of which hang in the Prado. More importantly, however, is that the original paintings are not by Goya at all. Rather, they are by the German artist Anton Raphael Mengs, which he created in 1765, the year of the couple\u2019s marriage. Each copy was offered at \u20ac7 million. The remaining two fake Goya paintings are a pair of religious scenes. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/news.artnet.com\/app\/news-upload\/2023\/04\/437.Goya4_.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Blessing of Santa Rosa de Lima<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, with an asking price of \u20ac8 million, is less in Goya\u2019s style and more characteristic of Italian painters active in the century before Goya\u2019s birth. Then, specialists doubt that a trained artist created <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/news.artnet.com\/app\/news-upload\/2023\/04\/437.Goya3_.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Allegory of the Pillar of Zaragoza<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These seized forgeries will be displayed at the Valencia Museum of the Enlightenment and Modernity as part of <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.muvim.es\/en\/content\/falso-arte-del-engano-engano-del-arte-0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">an ongoing exhibition<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> about confiscated counterfeit artworks. Spanish authorities are still in the middle of investigations and have not made any arrests yet. Valencian police will likely charge the four suspects with fraud concerning the paintings and their falsified provenance documents.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Spain, the Historic Heritage division of Valencia\u2019s regional police seized five paintings said to be forgeries being passed off as originals by the Spanish masters Diego Vel\u00e1zquez and Francisco de Goya. The suspects involved attempted to sell the works &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2023\/04\/the-laziest-fakes-goya-velasquez-forgeries-seized-in-spain\/?contemporary=N\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":47394,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1],"tags":[524,345,773,367,420,412,413,405,269,40,65,11,9,625,53,386,32,693],"class_list":["post-47393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rehs-galleries","category-rehs-contemporary","tag-17th-century","tag-17th-century-art","tag-18th-century-art","tag-crime-and-punishment","tag-fake","tag-forgeries","tag-forgery","tag-goya","tag-legal-matters","tag-museum-exhibitions","tag-museums","tag-rehs-contemporary-news","tag-rehs-galleries-news","tag-spain","tag-stupid-art-world-news","tag-tales-from-the-dark-side","tag-the-dark-side","tag-velazquez"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.7 (Yoast SEO v27.7) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Laziest Fakes: Goya &amp; 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