two unknown portraits of rembrandt were found in the collection of a family of United Kingdom when house specialists Christie’s They carried out a routine assessment. “I wasn’t aware of what I was going to see,” he said. Henry Pettifer, international vice president of auction house old master paintings.
The specialist described as “extraordinary” that these pieces were absent in the work studies of the seventeenth-century Dutch master, according to what was quoted by the Financial Times newspaper. The portraits, which date from 1635, will go on sale by Christie’s in London, on July 6, after being exhibited in New York and Amsterdam, with an estimated value for the two pieces between 6 and 10 million dollars.
According to the family, the pair of small-scale oil paintings were purchased generations ago in 1824. After analyzing the works and conducting research, they established a “virtually unbroken” line of provenance going back to the models they commissioned. to Rembrandt, Christie’s considered the portraits to be genuine.
As for the works of art, they represent Jan Willemsz van der Pluym and his wife Jaapgen Carels, a couple with family connections to the artist. According to investigators, Van der Pluym was a plumber and considered a prominent figure in Leiden. Your son Dominicus he married the daughter of Rembrandt’s uncle.
“The challenge is to offer really great paints that, by virtue of our category, are very rare right now… The market is selective, but it is very strong for the right material,” he said. Pettifer. The Rembrandt auction record was set in 2009, when the portrait “Man with Arms on Hips” sold for £20.2 million at Christie’s.
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