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This Painting of Lounging Lions Was Hanging in a Family’s Living Room. It Turned Out to Be an Original Delacroix
Titled "Study of Reclining Lions," the previously unknown work by the renowned French Romantic painter has been owned by a ...
Painting Hung in Family Home for 150 Years—Then They Discovered Its Value
Auctioneer Malo de Lussac stumbled on a true treasure: an original oil-on-canvas painting by Eugène Delacroix, one of France's greatest 19th-century Romantic artists. The piece, titled Study of ...
Vincent van Gogh painting worth $15 million bought at Minnesota garage sale for $50 ruled ‘not authentic’
An oil canvas painting believed to have been created by artist Vincent van Gogh and was purchased at a garage sale for $50 ...
Art historian solves riddle behind theft of famous portrait
The 70-year mystery surrounding the theft of an original oil sketch by renowned Flemish painter Anthony van Dyck from a stately home in Northamptonshire has been solved thanks to the research of an ...