{"id":161774,"date":"2025-11-30T22:37:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T22:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/161774\/"},"modified":"2025-11-30T22:37:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T22:37:07","slug":"long-lost-rubens-masterpiece-sells-at-auction-in-france-for-5-5m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/161774\/","title":{"rendered":"Long-lost Rubens \u2018masterpiece\u2019 sells at auction in France for $5.5m"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"CHLSLkBXpVqCICiH\" style=\"display:none\">Later historians described this engraving and, despite having never seen the painting, catalogued its existence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"CHLSLkBXpVqCICiH\" style=\"display:none\">It was bought by 19th-century French academic painter William-Adolphe Bouguereau and passed down through his family, according to the auction house.<\/p>\n<p class=\"CHLSLkBXpVqCICiH\" style=\"display:none\">The painting was authenticated by German art historian Nils Buttner, known for his research on the master of the Flemish Baroque, Osenat said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"CHLSLkBXpVqCICiH\" style=\"display:none\">Its provenance was certified through methods including X-ray imaging and pigment analysis, he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"CHLSLkBXpVqCICiH\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cIt\u2019s the very beginning of Baroque painting, depicting a crucified Christ, isolated, luminous and standing out vividly against a dark and threatening sky,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"CHLSLkBXpVqCICiH\" style=\"display:none\">Although Rubens produced many works for the Church, the painting, measuring 105.5 by 72.5cm, was likely to have been created for a private collector.<\/p>\n<p class=\"CHLSLkBXpVqCICiH\" style=\"display:none\">-Agence France-Presse<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Later historians described this engraving and, despite having never seen the painting, catalogued its existence. It was bought&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":161775,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[17355,92979,15408,27518,1975,1978,27245,156,17356,2082,1221,78,17354,7124,106393,1132,111,139,69,3074,17357,5413,3333,17351,1128,3235,1865,6436],"class_list":["post-161774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-17thcentury","tag-55m","tag-almost","tag-asking","tag-at","tag-auction","tag-beyond","tag-entertainment","tag-flemish","tag-for","tag-france","tag-in","tag-longlost","tag-master","tag-masterpiece","tag-million","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-painting","tag-paul","tag-peter","tag-price","tag-rubens","tag-sells","tag-sold","tag-today","tag-well"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}