Old Painting Found In Attic

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.

Old painting found in attic.

But to be on the safe side in 2014 he alerted an art appraiser eric turquin based in paris. 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 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. The painting which was found under an old mattress in the attic.

Years after purchasing a house in toulouse france the owner focused on an old painting stored in the attic. 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. A painting coated in dust and stained by a water leak that looked all the same to be something of value.

Caravaggio allegedly painted two versions of the same image. The painting depicts the biblical tale of a woman named judith who beheads holofernes in the old testament. Wikimedia commons eric turquin a 16th century painting by italian baroque artist caravaggio was recently discovered collecting dust in an old attic. 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.

It is expected to go for 170 million. This version had been lost for decades until it turned up in the attic. It took five years of verification and restoration to prepare the 1607 caravaggio for auction. She claimed that the painting which had sat in the.

The owners of the house near the southwestern city of toulouse discovered the dramatic 400 year old painting when they went to fix a leak in the ceiling. Opinion on it before we put it up for sale anywhere discovered in the rectory attic in 1986 by a former priest of all saints the painting was eventually sent to an art conservation firm in new hampshire where it got an inconclusive evaluation and was then returned to all saints and stored in a. In 2010 mcardle s descendent jon buell discovered the dirty painting in his grandmother s attic hidden between the rafters underneath a tarp.