The Vanishing Velázquez: A 19th-Century Bookseller's Obsession with a Lost Masterpiece

Snare was a British bookseller who discovered a lost Diego Velázquez painting at an auction in 1845. Contents: A discovery -- The painting -- The painter -- Minster Street -- Man in black -- The talk of London -- A man in full -- The attack -- The theater of life -- Seizure and theft -- The trial -- The escape -- Velázquez on Broadway -- The escape artist -- The vanishing -- Seeing is believing -- The ghost of a picture -- An infinite number of Charleses -- Lost and found -- Saved