A long and dramatic painting of the 17th-century Flemish master Peter Paul Rubens to the 17th-century crucified Jesus Christ was found in a luxury house in Paris and will be auctioned this fall.
Christ on the Cross (1613) was discovered by French auctioneer Jean-Pierre Osenat last September, while preparing to sell private residences in the city’s sixth district. AFPthe first thing to report this news.
Osenat said that the large Baroque painting, which measures 42 x 29 inches, is “a true professionalism in faith and a favorite subject for Rubens, a Protestant who conversed in the Catholicism.”
Osenat told AFPnote that the artwork is in a “very good state”.
“This is an extremely rare and incredible discovery,” he added.
Osenate says Christ on the Cross Nils Buttner, a German curator and art historian who has served as chairman of Centrum Rubenianum in Antwerp, Belgium since 2021. The source of the artwork is also certified by X-ray imaging, pigment analysis and other methods.
It is reported Artnet News.
Unlike many other works Rubens made for the Catholic Church, Christ on the Cross Probably made for private collectors. Before discovering the owner of a Paris mansion at work, AFP The painting was reported as “who is believed to belong to the 19th century French academic painter William-Adolphe Bouguereau”.
The painting will be auctioned at the auction house of the same name in Osenat, Fontainebleu, France during a sale on November 30. No other information about Rubens paintings has been posted online, including sales estimates.
