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SPANISH FORGER. Painting on portion of 15th-century vellum choirbook leaf, depicting juggler, bagpiper, and courtly couple. Approximately 173x176 mm; surface wear affecting lower border. Np, late 19th/early 20th century
The Spanish Forger was an unidentified artist of unknown nationality, believed to have been active during the late 19th and early 20th century in Paris, who specialized in the forgery of medieval miniatures and created a substantial number of fake panels, manuscripts, and leaves in a recognizable style. The name by which he is now known was applied to him by Belle da Costa Greene of the Pierpont Morgan Library after she identified as his work a panel formerly attributed to the 15th-century Spanish painter Maestro Jorge Inglés. For a painting similar to the one offered here see Voelkle (1978) L24.
