The controversy that always surrounds the works attributed to Caravaggio soaks a box found twelve years ago in a storage room of Toulouse and whose owners presented yesterday in Paris accompanied by a cluster of signs and surveys that point to its authenticity.
first shown to the press, the painting, an oil on canvas 144 by 173.5 cm, representing Judith beheading Holofernes and ahead way to show that out of brushes Lombard.
that would change the life of this fabric found in 2004 by chance in a false ceiling of a storeroom in the region of Toulouse, in southern France when the homeowners were forced to close a water leak.
Although the style and subject matter suggest that this is a caravaggio, the Lombard painter never signed his paintings and his work was subject of countless copies, which always difficult to attribute them.
the French expert Eric Turquine, whose house appraisal has been chosen by the owners to determine their authenticity, argues however that in this occasion everything indicates that it is an authentic painting by the Italian.
“no work of Caravaggio found has had a total consensus, there is always controversy,” says the expert.
Knowing that in this battle is judge and jury, Turquine relied mainly on the analysis of Nicola Spinoza, former director of the Museum of Naples and considered one of the great specialists in the work of Caravaggio.
According to the survey, presented in Paris, “the special lighting, the typical energy of Caravaggio unimpaired with a steady hand, and pictorial materials, suggest that this picture is authentic.”
“it must be recognized on the web an original authentic Lombard master (…) although we have no tangible and irrefutable evidence, “the specialist, who acknowledges that on the Italian master (1571-1610)” will always be more controversies experts “.
Louvre , which could be analyzed for three weeks, were inconclusive, but his opinion has served for the French Ministry of Culture signed a decree by way preventive , prohibited the box to leave French territory.
Another test for Turquine that there are indications that the work belongs to Lombard.
Thanks to testimonies of the time it is known that Caravaggio painted a Judith beheading Holofernes .
the Turquine cabinet has been able to follow the trail through an allocated copy to the Flemish painter Louis Finson, which is known who had contact with the Lombard painter.
the will of Finson also noted that flamenco had two paintings by Caravaggio, one Virgen del Rosario and another that appeared Judith and Holofernes, which the trail is lost to his death.
in addition, the Italian painted another version of Judith beheading Holofernes , located at the National Gallery of Ancient Art of Barberini Palace in Rome probably painted in 1599.
experts Turquine argue that presented today was painted between 1600 and 1610, at the end of the artist’s life.
in the eighteenth century the trail leads to Spain, where he served in the Napoleonic army, a descendant of the owners of the picture.
During the last century and a half it looks like he slept, hidden in the attic of a house in the south, where he was rescued and soon identified as valuable by a specialist, who sent him immediately to Paris.
to Turquine is “the most important painting found in the last quarter century of one of the geniuses of painting universal “.
and the most important thing has been the expert in his hands, he confessed to reporters as shows that for years, waiting to confirm its authenticity, she kept him hanging on the walls his own.
Now, the cabinet has directed home valued at no less than 120 million euros.
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