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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;panzerman, post: 8167399, member: 77704&quot;]How did the French acquire it, was it looted by Napoleon when he seized Austrian Territory in Northern Italy? A lot of the paintings in the Louvre where stolen from Venice/ Milan/ Genoa 1797-1814.</p><p>As Donna stated, they could have been more struck. Maybe the Ottomans found them, after taking Constantinople in 1453? Or some are in collections. The fabled AV 1000 Mohurs of Jahangir was thought to be a myth/ until the Nizam of Hyderabad showed he had the 1000 and the 500 Mohurs in his coll.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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