5/22/2023 0 Comments The last painting of sara devosThe culprit is not a professional forger but an impoverished graduate student Ellie Shipley who goes to extraordinary lengths to understand the techniques of the Dutch masters she studies. When police fail to find the thief and there’s no sign of the painting on the black market, Marty resorts to a private investigator to find the forger and retrieve his lost masterpiece. Closer examination shows it’s a fake a meticulously crafted replacement for the original stolen while he and his wife had hosted a charity benefit event six months earlier. One night in 1957 something doesn’t seem quite right with the painting. He particularly admires the haunting quality of the scene that depicts a young girl emerging from a snowy thicket above a frozen river. He knows every inch of the canvas, studying it every night in his Manhattan apartment. Nevertheless de Groot values his family heirloom. New York lawyer Marty de Groot is the latest member of his family to take possession of a Dutch landscape painting called ‘ At the Edge of a Wood’.’ It’s believed to be the only surviving work by Sara de Vos, a Dutch painter in the seventeenth century who was one of the few women admitted to the prestigious Guild of St Luke.įamily legend holds that the painting is “cursed”, responsible for the “300 years of gout, rheumatism, heart failure, intermittent barrenness and stroke in his bloodline.” Ever since Pieter de Groot bought it at auction in in 1637, none of its owners has lived past the age of 60.
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