{"id":150201,"date":"2025-09-12T00:36:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T00:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/150201\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T00:36:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T00:36:08","slug":"long-lost-painting-by-rubens-from-1613-discovered-in-paris-mansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/150201\/","title":{"rendered":"Long-Lost Painting By Rubens From 1613 Discovered in Paris Mansion"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tA long-lost, dramatic painting of Jesus Christ<\/a>\u2018s crucifixion by 17th century Flemish master painter Peter Paul Rubens<\/a> was found in a mansion in Paris, and will be auctioned this fall. <\/p>\n

\n\tChrist on the cross (1613) was discovered by French auctioneer Jean-Pierre Osenat<\/a> last September, while preparing to selling the private residence in the city\u2019s 6th district, according to AFP, which first reported the news.<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tOsenat said the large Baroque painting measuring 42 by 29 inches was \u201ca true profession of faith and a favourite subject for Rubens, a protestant who converted to Catholicism\u201d.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\u201cIt was painted by Rubens at the height of his talent,\u201d Osenat told AFP, noting the artwork was in \u201cvery good condition\u201d.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt is an extremely rare and incredible discovery,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

\n\tOsenat said that Christ on the cross was authenticated by German curator and art historian Nils Buttner, who has been Chairman of the Centrum Rubenianum<\/a> in Antwerp, Belgium since 2021. The artwork\u2019s provenance was also certified through X-ray imaging, pigment analysis, and other methods. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe painting will also be included in the next Addenda and Corrigenda of Rubens\u2019s catalogue raisonn\u00e9, reported Artnet News.<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tUnlike many of the others works by Rubens produced for the Catholic Church, Christ on the cross was likely made for a private collector. Before the owners of the Parisian mansion where the work was discovered, AFP reported the painting \u201cis thought to have belonged to the 19th-century French academic painter William-Adolphe Bouguereau\u201d.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe painting is set to be auctioned off by Osenat\u2019s namesake auction house in Fontainebleu, France during a sale on November 30<\/a>. No other information about the Rubens painting has been released online, including a sales estimate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A long-lost, dramatic painting of Jesus Christ\u2018s crucifixion by 17th century Flemish master painter Peter Paul Rubens was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150202,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[228,226,227,229,88,92668,92669,24554],"class_list":{"0":"post-150201","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-design","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-jesus-christ","14":"tag-osenat","15":"tag-peter-paul-rubens"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}