A Glove Threads the Wire: The Hartley-Cross Forgery
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A Glove Threads the Wire: The Hartley-Cross Forgery
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A single white archival glove threaded with a wire lot tag, found on a cold December morning, pointed straight at a theft that seemed impossible: a flawless-looking seventeenth-century panel gone and an indistinguishable replacement hanging in its place. The original had already been sold two days earlier for $18,000-so who built the fake, who sold the real one, and why would a conservator risk a tiny anachronism that would unravel the scheme?
In this episode, we walk through the timeline from the paper carrier’s discovery to the notes that cracked the case, tracing every step of the swap and the small clues left behind that forced experts to ask the question: how was a regional auction house outmaneuvered by a forgery engineered to deceive professionals?
Person: Douglas Petersen
Date: December 11, 2019
Person: Melvin Underwood
Person: Wendy Cooper
Event: Lot 214 sold for $18,000
- The glove was discovered at 6:00 AM on December 11, 2019 by a fifteen-year-old paper carrier.
- Lot 214, a painting attributed to the circle of Pieter de Hooch, sold on December 9, 2019 for $18,000 in absentia.
- Melvin Underwood began constructing the replacement panel by October 2019, about six weeks before the theft.
- Wendy Cooper noted “lead white in shadow - check ratio” in her private notebook when cataloguing lot 214 in late November 2019.
- Underwood’s reproduced back included a character from an encoding system not in use until a decade after the painting’s supposed date.
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