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===Known forgeries=== [[File:The Procuress forgery by Han van Meegeren from the Courtauld Gallery.jpg|thumb|Han van Meegeren's [[forgery]] of ''The Procuress'' by [[Dirck van Baburen]]]] [[File:Malle Babbe, Han van Meegeren.jpg|thumb|A painting by Han van Meegeren in imitation of [[Frans Hals]]' ''[[Malle Babbe]]''|alt=A painting by Han van Meegeren in imitation of Frans Hals' Malle Babbe]] List of known forgeries by Han van Meegeren (unless specified differently, they are after Vermeer):<ref>Van Brandhof, Marijke (1979). ''Early Vermeer 1937. Contexts of life and work of the painter/falsifier Han van Meegeren''. (Catalogue of Han van Meegeren work pp. 153–163, with numerous illustrations of the pictures with the signature H. van Meegeren.) Dissertation. Utrecht: The Spectrum.</ref><ref>De Boer, H., and Pieter Koomen (1942). ''Photographs of the paintings of Han van Meegeren'': Han van Meegeren (Teekeningen I). With a preface by Drs-Ing. E. A. van Genderen Stort. 'sGravenhage: Publishing House L. J. C. Boucher.</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last1= Kostelanetz |first1=Richard|title=A dictionary of the avant-gardes |publisher=Routledge |location=New York |year=2001 |page= 636|isbn=0-415-93764-7 |author2=H. R. Brittain |display-authors=etal}}</ref> * A counterpart to ''[[Laughing Cavalier]]'' after Frans Hals (1923) once the subject of a scandal in The Hague in 1923, its present whereabouts is unknown. *''The Happy Smoker'' after Frans Hals (1923) hangs in the [[Groninger Museum]] in the Netherlands *''Man and Woman at a Spinet'' 1932 (perhaps without misleading intentions,<ref>{{Cite book|title=Vermeer|last=Bianconi|first=Piero|page=102|publisher=Gemeinshaftsausgabe Kunstkreis Luzern Buchclub Ex Libris Zürich|year=1967}}</ref> sold to Amsterdam banker, Dr. [[Fritz Mannheimer]]) *''Lady reading a letter''<ref>{{Cite web |title=Brieflezende vrouw |url=http://www.geheugenvannederland.nl/?/nl/items/RIJK01:SK-A-4240 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151016081729/http://www.geheugenvannederland.nl/?%2Fnl%2Fitems%2FRIJK01%3ASK-A-4240 |archive-date=2015-10-16 |access-date=2013-12-29 |website=Het Geheugen van Nederland |language=nl}}</ref> 1935–1936 (unsold, on display at the Rijksmuseum) *''Lady playing a lute and looking out the window''<ref>{{Cite web |title=Cisterspelende vrouw |url=http://www.geheugenvannederland.nl/?/nl/items/RIJK01:SK-A-4241 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151016081729/http://www.geheugenvannederland.nl/?%2Fnl%2Fitems%2FRIJK01%3ASK-A-4241 |archive-date=2015-10-16 |access-date=2013-12-29 |website=Het Geheugen van Nederland |language=nl}}</ref> 1935–1936 (unsold, on display at the Rijksmuseum) *''Portrait of a Man''<ref>{{Cite web |title=Portret van een man |url=http://www.geheugenvannederland.nl/?/nl/items/RIJK01:SK-A-4243 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151016081729/http://www.geheugenvannederland.nl/?%2Fnl%2Fitems%2FRIJK01%3ASK-A-4243 |archive-date=2015-10-16 |access-date=2013-12-29 |website=Het Geheugen van Nederland |language=nl}}</ref> 1935–1936 in the style of Gerard ter Borch (unsold, on display at the Rijksmuseum) *''Woman Drinking'' after Frans Hals (version of [[Malle Babbe]])<ref>{{Cite web |title=Malle Babbe |url=http://www.geheugenvannederland.nl/?/nl/items/RIJK01:SK-A-4242 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151016081729/http://www.geheugenvannederland.nl/?%2Fnl%2Fitems%2FRIJK01%3ASK-A-4242 |archive-date=2015-10-16 |access-date=2021-11-05 |work=Het Geheugen van Nederland |language=nl}}</ref> 1935–1936 (unsold, on display at the Rijksmuseum.) *''The Supper at Emmaus'', 1936–1937 (sold to the Boymans for 520,000–550,000 guldens, about US$300,000 or US$4 Million today) *''Interior with Drinkers'' 1937–1938 (sold to D G. van Beuningen for 219,000–220,000 guldens about US$120,000 or US$1.6 million today) *''The Last Supper I'', 1938–1939 *''Interior with Cardplayers'' 1938–1939 (sold to W. van der Vorm for 219,000–220,000 guldens US$120,000 or US$1.6 million today) *''The Head of Christ'', 1940–1941 (sold to D G. van Beuningen for 400,000–475,000 guldens about US$225,000 or US$3.25 million today) *''The Last Supper II'', 1940–1942 (sold to D G. van Beuningen for 1,600,000 guldens about US$600,000 or US$7 million today) *''The Blessing of Jacob'' 1941–1942 (sold to W. van der Vorm for 1,270,000 guldens about US$500,000 or US$5.75 million today) *''Christ with the Adulteress'' 1941–1942 (sold to Hermann Göring for 1,650,000 guldens about US$624,000 or US$6.75 million today, now in the public collection of [[Museum de Fundatie]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Looking for Vermeer |url=https://www.museumdefundatie.nl/en/looking-for-vermeer/ |access-date=2024-02-23 |website=[[Museum de Fundatie]] |language=en}}</ref>) *''The Washing of the Feet''<ref>{{Cite web |title=De voetwassing |url=http://www.geheugenvannederland.nl/?/nl/items/RIJK01:SK-A-4239 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151016081729/http://www.geheugenvannederland.nl/?%2Fnl%2Fitems%2FRIJK01%3ASK-A-4239 |archive-date=2015-10-16 |access-date=2013-12-29 |website=Het Geheugen van Nederland |language=nl}}</ref> 1941–1943 (sold to the Netherlands state for 1,250,000–1,300,000 guldens about US$500,000 or US$5.3 million today, on display at the Rijksmuseum) *''Jesus among the Doctors'' September 1945 (painted during trial under Court's control, and sold at auction for 3,000 guldens, about US$800 or US$7,000 today) *''The Procuress'' given to the Courtauld Institute as a fake in 1960 and confirmed as such by chemical analysis in 2011. Posthumously, Van Meegeren's forgeries have been shown in exhibitions around the world, including exhibitions in Amsterdam (1952), [[Basel]] (1953), [[Zürich]] (1953), [[Haarlem]] in the [[Kunsthandel de Boer]] (1958), [[London]] (1961), Rotterdam (1971), [[Minneapolis]] (1973), [[Essen]] (1976–1977), Berlin (1977), {{Interlanguage link|Slot Zeist|nl}} (1985), New York (1987), [[Berkeley, CA]] (1990), [[Munich]] (1991), Rotterdam (1996), The Hague (1996) and more recently at the Haagse Kunstkring, The Hague (2004) and [[Stockholm]] (2004), and have thus been made broadly accessible to the public.<ref>Mondadori, Arte Arnaldo (1991). ''"Genuinely wrong"'' (Villa Stuck, München). Fondation Cartier.</ref><ref>Schmidt, Georg (ed.) (1953). ''"Wrong or genuine?"'' (Basel, Zürich). Basel Art Museum.</ref><ref>Van Wijnen, H. (1996). ''"Exhibition catalog Rotterdam"''. Han van Meegeren. (With 30 black-and-white and 16 colour pictures.) The Hague. Language: Dutch.</ref>
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