An imaginary journey was invented by an artist's family

Édouard van Marcke inspired totally erroneous information in his own daughter, Léonie Mottart-van Marcke. Her notes claimed that her father had obtained the Darchis foundation scholarship thanks to a copy of Jan Victors, which is false. This confusion wrongly led people to believe that he had visited Italy, Switzerland, Bavaria and the Rhineland around 1840, whereas his true German landscapes date from the 1856-1859 period.