Old Painting Found In Attic

She claimed that the painting which had sat in the.

Old painting found in attic.

It took five years of verification and restoration to prepare the 1607 caravaggio for auction. It is expected to go for 170 million. It was coated in dust and stained by a water leak so it seemed unlikely to be worth anything. The attic of their toulouse home had yielded a surprising discovery.

The 400 year old work which was found by accident in 2014 in an attic of a house in toulouse is thought to have been painted by italian master caravaggio according to old masters expert eric. The painting which was found under an old mattress in the attic. A painting described as a lost caravaggio masterpiece has been bought two days before it was due to go under the hammer in france. A painting coated in dust and stained by a water leak that looked all the same to be something of value.

Years after purchasing a house in toulouse france the owner focused on an old painting stored in the attic. In 2010 mcardle s descendent jon buell discovered the dirty painting in his grandmother s attic hidden between the rafters underneath a tarp. The painting depicts the biblical tale of a woman named judith who beheads holofernes in the old testament. This version had been lost for decades until it turned up in the attic.

Caravaggio allegedly painted two versions of the same image. 3 6 millionone 18th century giovanni battista tiepolo painting lay hidden in the attic of a french château for two centuries perhaps because its subject showed a little too much. A painting stumbled upon in the attic of a house in france is an authentic work by italian renaissance master caravaggio and could be worth up to 120 million euros a178m experts said. Mar 14 2019 nancy bilyeau.

Sometimes the most valuable treasures are hiding in plain sight which was certainly the case with a french family when they discovered a priceless painting thought to be lost forever in their attic. Although some think the painting isn t real it s estimated to be worth between 114 million and 171 million. But to be on the safe side in 2014 he alerted an art appraiser eric turquin based in paris.