Jonathan Meades

The more deceived

The duped party in a forgery is not all that duped, says Jonathan Meades. He is mutely complicit with the swindler

Leonardo da Vinci: ‘La Belle Ferronière’ 1495–1499 (Musée de Louvre, Paris) and (left) Follower of Leonardo da Vinci: ‘La Belle Ferronière’ c. before 1750 (Private Collection). Getty Images.

  • The Art of Forgery

    Noah Charney

    Phaidon, pp. 294

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