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Case Summary
Weber v. Peck
Weber v. Peck, No. 97-cv-7625 (JSM) (S.D.N.Y. July 9, 1999).
Précis
In this dispute over the sale of what the parties agreed was an authentic 17th century painting with a false
provenance
The history of the ownership of an object or work of art; sometimes also used to describe the place of origin, or the find-spot, of an archaeological object or other antiquity (more correctly, “provenience”).
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