Joseph Duveen, 1st Baron Duveen, known as Sir Joseph Duveen, Baronet, between 1927 and 1933, was a British art dealer who was considered one of the most influential art dealers of all time.
Duveen in the 1920s
The Elgin Marbles in the Duveen Gallery of the British Museum
La belle ferronnière, by Leonardo da Vinci, in the Louvre, Paris; the authenticity of another version of this painting was questioned by Duveen.
The oldest Western panel portrait of a woman, now in the National Gallery of Art, Washington. Photographs prove Duveen significantly altered the hair and headdress to make it look like a Pisanello of the 1440s.[citation needed] It is now catalogued as by an unknown "Franco-Flemish Master" of about 1410.
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The Elgin Marbles are a collection of Ancient Greek sculptures from the Parthenon and other structures from the Acropolis of Athens, removed from Ottoman Greece in the early 19th century and shipped t
Joseph Duveen, 1st Baron Duveen
…galleries and gave considerable sums to repair and expand several galleries and museums. He built the Duveen Gallery of the British Museum to house the Elgin Marbles and funded a major extension of the Tate Gallery. He was also controversial, said to have damaged old masters by 'overcleaning' and his name is associated…
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Western frieze, II, 2
Parthenon Selene Horse
Metope from the Elgin Marbles depicting a Centaur and a Lapith fighting