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P.T. 巴纳姆：奋斗与胜利·补录 283
P.T. 巴纳姆《奋斗与胜利》· Struggles and Triumphs · 领导
The people soon began to talk about Jenny Lind, and I was particularly anxious to obtain a good portrait of her. Fortunately, a fine opportunity occurred. One day, while I was sitting in the office of the Museum, a foreigner approached me with a small package under his arm. He informed me in broken English that he was a Swede, and said he was an artist, who had just arrived from Stockholm, where Jenny Lind had kindly given him a number of sittings, and he now had with him the portrait of her which he had painted upon copper. He unwrapped the package, and showed me a beautiful picture of the Swedish Nightingale, inclosed in an elegant gilt frame, about fourteen by twenty inches. It was just the thing I wanted; the price was fifty dollars, and I purchased it at once. Upon showing it to an artist friend the same day, he quietly assured me that it was a cheap lithograph pasted on a tin back, neatly varnished, and made to appear like a fine oil painting. The intrinsic value of the picture did not exceed thirty-seven and one half cents!
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定位：Additional excerpt 283 · 核对日期：2026-10-19 · 核验：短摘录
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公众开始谈论珍妮·林德，巴纳姆急需一张她的好画像。一个自称瑞典画家的外国人拿来一幅镶金框的“油画”，开价五十美元，他立刻买下。朋友却告诉他，那只是廉价石版画贴在铁皮上、刷了清漆冒充油画，实际价值不到四毛钱。教训是：越着急要的东西，越容易被包装和故事骗；买前应找懂行的人验货，别被“独家”“刚到手”冲昏头。
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巴纳姆在博物馆办公时遇到一个兜售珍妮·林德画像的瑞典人，结果买到了假货。
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