A judge has sentenced a New York City man to six years in prison for a convoluted art fraud scheme involving a 19th-century painting that was found in the bushes by a doorman.

Federal Judge Colleen McMahon called 54-year-old Thomas Doyle “a career criminal” at his sentencing Monday. She noted he has 11 convictions over 34 years.

“Portrait of a Girl” was painted in the mid-1800s by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot. It vanished in 2010 after a middleman showing the work to a prospective buyer claimed he got drunk and lost it. The nearby doorman later found it and took it to police.

Prosecutors said Doyle solicited $880,000 from an investor and made false promises of selling the painting and sharing the profits.