2-974-790 - Heritage Art/Heritage Images

Woman reading music, 1935-1940. Painting inspired by Vermeer's 'Woman in Blue Reading a Letter'. Henricus Antonius van Meegeren was a Dutch painter and portraitist, considered one of the most ingenious art forgers of the 20th century. He became a national hero after World War II when it was revealed that he had sold a forged painting to Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands.