France Painting Attic

A painting coated in dust and stained by a water.

France painting attic.

But to be on the safe side in 2014 he alerted an art appraiser eric turquin based in paris. A painting found in an attic in southwest france is a long lost caravaggio experts said tuesday as they unveiled a work estimated at 120 million euros if it is attributed to the italian master. But that s where the painting s trail goes cold before it disappeared until 2014. The attic of their toulouse home had yielded a surprising discovery.

Auctioneer marc labarbe explains how judith and holofernes was found in a toulouse attic. The attic where the painting judith and holofernes was found in toulouse france. The so called caravaggio in the attic looks. It was coated in dust and stained by a water leak so it seemed unlikely to be worth anything.

From marc labarbe. Lost caravaggio painting found in attic could be worth over 100m caravaggio painting lost2 jpg. In 2014 french auctioneer marc labarbe received a phone call from a friend. Years after purchasing a house in toulouse france the owner focused on an old painting stored in the attic.

Labelled the caravaggio in the attic france has put an export ban on the painting to stop it leaving the country while investigations are carried out. A painting described as a lost caravaggio masterpiece has been bought two days before it was due to go under the hammer in france. The painting which was found under an old mattress in the attic. One theory about how the painting moved from naples italy to toulouse france is that finson had left it with a friend or sold it during one of his business trips to the french town in the last years before his death.