Breughel: Flea market painting turns out to be masterpiece
source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2008/oct/02/art
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The owner of a small round painting showing two peasants has found out that she owns an unknown work by the 17th-century Flemish artist Pieter Brueghel the Younger.
The owner took her painting, which she had bought for the equivalent of £560 in a Dutch flea market almost 50 years ago, to antique experts on a Dutch TV. They immediately recognised the importance of the signed, 16cm-wide picture of a farmer and his wife resting next to a tree, valuing it at €80,000 to €100,000 (£63,000 to £79,000).
The raised paint caused by the contraction of its wooden panel over time, as well as Brueghel's signature on the trunk of the tree, made it possible to authenticate it and date it to about 1620.
The unnamed owner of the painting did not reveal whether they would now sell it.
The owner took her painting, which she had bought for the equivalent of £560 in a Dutch flea market almost 50 years ago, to antique experts on a Dutch TV. They immediately recognised the importance of the signed, 16cm-wide picture of a farmer and his wife resting next to a tree, valuing it at €80,000 to €100,000 (£63,000 to £79,000).
The raised paint caused by the contraction of its wooden panel over time, as well as Brueghel's signature on the trunk of the tree, made it possible to authenticate it and date it to about 1620.
The unnamed owner of the painting did not reveal whether they would now sell it.
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