A Seventeenth century masterpiece by Peter Paul Rubens, Portrait of a Girl, on the DESA Unicum public sale home in Warsaw, Poland, on Thursday, February 17, 2022. (AP Picture/Czarek Sokolowski)
WARSAW, POLAND --
Peter Paul Rubens' Seventeenth century masterpiece “Portrait of a Girl” has bought for the equal of US$3.4 million at a Warsaw public sale, changing into the most costly art work ever purchased on the Polish artwork market, the public sale home stated.
The portray bought for 14.4 million zlotys, public sale charge included, at an Previous Masters public sale Thursday evening on the Desa Unicum.
It was the primary portray by Rubens ever to seem on the Polish market. It was placed on sale by a British citizen.
Previous to the public sale, the worth of the Flemish grasp's oil-on-canvas portrait of a dark-haired girl in a wealthy black velvet gown had been estimated at between 18 million and 24 million zlotys (US$4.5 million-$6 million).
Specialists say the work, painted by Rubens round 1620-25, with involvement from his Antwerp workshop, could possibly be a likeness of the painter's first spouse, Isabella Brant, or of a member of the Duarte household of jewelers, who had been Rubens' neighbors. The mannequin may additionally presumably have come from the Spanish royal courtroom.
Prior to now the portray has belonged, amongst others, to Seventeenth-century British painter Sir Peter Lely. It was final proven in public in 1965.
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