The painting had been hanging above a hot plate used for cooking food, but is now set to go under the hammer on October 27 at the Acteon auction house in Senlis, north of Paris, according to AFP. You can even see the corrections he made.” “We also used infrared light to be sure the painting was done by the same hand. “They are all made with the same technique on the same wood panel so you can follow the grain of the wood through the different scenes,” said Montcouquil. It was lost for centuries before a British aristocrat found it in his seat in Suffolk, according to AFP.Īnother - “The Flagellation of Christ” - can be found at the Frick Collection in New York. The National Gallery in London is home to another scene from the work, “The Virgin and Child with Two Angels,” which the gallery acquired in 2000. The pictorial layer remains in “excellent condition” despite accumulating dust, continued the release. The style of painting, the gold background, and traces of the old frame helped experts identify the painting as part of the triptych, according to a press release from auctioneers Acteon.
Montcouquil said the work is part of a diptych made in 1280 when the artist painted eight scenes centered on the passion and crucifixion of Christ.
“There are only eleven of his paintings in the world – they are rare.” He is known to have been the discoverer and master of Giotto, widely regarded as one of the greatest artists of the pre-Renaissance era. He’s a father of painting so we know his work very well,” Montcouquil told CNN.Ĭimabue is the pseudonym of artist Cenni di Pepo, born in Florence around the year 1240. “It didn’t take long for us to see that it was an artwork by Italian painter Cimabue. The unsuspecting owner did not know where the 25.8 x 20.3 centimeter painting came from, he added. Over 20 of these copies have been identified, but, until recently, the. “Christ Mocked” is expected to fetch up to 6 million Euros ($6.59 million) at auction next month, according to Jerome Montcouquil of art specialists Cabinet Turquin, which was asked to carry out tests on the painting after its discovery at the beginning of this summer.Īn elderly French woman from the town of Compiegne had kept the rare artwork - which she thought was a Greek religious icon - hanging in her kitchen, said Montcouquil. Salvator Mundi, or Savior of the World, is a painting known to have been made by da Vinci and copied by many others. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated.Ī lost masterpiece by 13th-century Florentine painter Cimabue has been found in a kitchen near Paris. This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.
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