Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1897 — Washed Off Murillo. [ARTICLE]

Washed Off Murillo.

An English traveler in Paris was sorely tempted by a magnificent and undoubted Murillo, duly Authenticated to have been the plunder of one of Napoleon’s marshals in Spain. An enormous price was asked for it, but after much deliberation he bought-it. At that time paintings imported here paid duty, and our connoisseur, desirous of avoiding it. caused a landscape in distemper to be painted over his Alurillo. Of course, it passed the custom house. It was then sent to a pict-ure-cleaner with orders to wash off the landscape. He washed off the landscape, and he washed off the Alurillo, and there appeared an early corporation portrait of King George 111., in Windsor coat, buckskin breeches and top boots.— Spare Aloments.