New Leonardo da Vinci portrait discovered as it's matched to artist's fingerprint Mail Online
£100m surprise: Experts believe the fingerprint found in the top left hand corner of the painting, previously billed as 'German, early 19thC', could be that of Leonardo da Vinci's
It went under the hammer for 19,000 dollars and was later sold for a similar sum to a Canadian-born connoisseur, Peter Silverman, in 2007.
Mr Silverman believed that there was more to the portrait and started to look into the matter after a discussion last year with Dr Nicholas Turner, formerly Keeper of Prints and Drawings at the British Museum.
The portrait is due to go on display in an exhibition in Sweden next year.
“....the first major Leonardo Da Vinci find for 100 years”
“thought you might be interested” ping :-)
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For crying out loud don’t let Dan Brown know about this.
He will some how find a way to make it the Church’s fault.
I wonder if this is the most valuable man-made item by weight and size? If it isn’t it certainly will be near the top!
That would be a fun Antiques Roadshow episode!
This points out one important fact about the art world:
The value of a work depends more on who the artist was than the quality of the work itself.
I would test it for da Vinci DNA.