 In the USA Network show "White Collar", an episode "Copycat Caffrey" was mainly about the same basic con that Valfierno pulled.One of the plot revelations of the 1978 novel "The Perfect Thief" by Ronald Bass is that the character Voleur used this con, stealing a Goya painting so he could sell 32 forgeries to various buyers.The novel does not reference the original con by name.