This painting is an invention of the author, but resembles the real-world painting Sleeping Venus, now at the Dresden Museum.
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A major plot point near the end of the novel turns on a painting by the Renaissance Venetian artist Giorgione, "Venus with Pistol".
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On his next commission in Amsterdam, he helps obtain an un-catalogued work of Vincent van Gogh, but the art expert certifying the painting is soon brutally murdered.
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