The Vanishing Velázquez: A 19th Century Bookseller's Obsession with a Lost Masterpiece Editing

The Vanishing Velázquez: A 19th Century Bookseller's Obsession with a Lost Masterpiece EditingNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A Wall Street Journal Top 10 Nonfiction Book of 2016 As compelling and entertaining as a detective novel (The Economist), the incredible true storypart art history and part mysteryof a Velzquez portrait that went missing and the obsessed nineteenth century bookseller determined to prove he had found it. When John Snare, a nineteenth century provincial bookseller, traveled to a liquidation auction, he found a vivid portrait of

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