Thomas Doyle pleads guilty in Gustave Courbet painting fraud
Thomas Doyle pleaded guilty to wire fraud over Mother and Child on a Hammock. Prosecutors said he sold the work through a gallery and withheld the owner’s proceeds. At publication, sentencing was scheduled for November 2026; no sentence had yet been imposed.
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