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Home Appraiser Spotted a 500 yr old Brueghel Painting in a Family's TV Room. Just Sold For $845,000 [View all]
A Home Appraiser Spotted a 500-Year-Old Brueghel Painting in a Family’s T.V. Room. They Just Sold It for $845,000
For generations, the family that owned the artwork believed it was a cheap knockoff.
Earlier this year, a family in northern France called on auctioneer Malo de Lussac to appraise the value of their home. But when the expert arrived, he spotted something potentially even more valuable: a 500-year-old painting by the Flemish artist Pieter Brueghel the Younger.
“I arrived in a small television room which was not very well lit. I started making my estimates in the living room and turning around behind the door, there were two-thirds of the painting visible,” de Lussac, who works for Paris’s Daguerre Val de Loire auction house, told the Associated Press. “And that’s when in fact I discovered the painting. It was a bit of a surprise.”
The artwork, believed to have been painted between 1615 and 1617, highlighted Daguerre Val de Loire’s auction of drawings, paintings, and autographs in Paris this week. It carried a pre-sale estimate of €600,000 to €800,000 ($650,000 to $866,000).
more...https://news.artnet.com/market/appraiser-breughel-tv-room-original-2277383
For generations, the family that owned the artwork believed it was a cheap knockoff.
Earlier this year, a family in northern France called on auctioneer Malo de Lussac to appraise the value of their home. But when the expert arrived, he spotted something potentially even more valuable: a 500-year-old painting by the Flemish artist Pieter Brueghel the Younger.
“I arrived in a small television room which was not very well lit. I started making my estimates in the living room and turning around behind the door, there were two-thirds of the painting visible,” de Lussac, who works for Paris’s Daguerre Val de Loire auction house, told the Associated Press. “And that’s when in fact I discovered the painting. It was a bit of a surprise.”
The artwork, believed to have been painted between 1615 and 1617, highlighted Daguerre Val de Loire’s auction of drawings, paintings, and autographs in Paris this week. It carried a pre-sale estimate of €600,000 to €800,000 ($650,000 to $866,000).
more...https://news.artnet.com/market/appraiser-breughel-tv-room-original-2277383
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