Experts?find?unknown?Rembrandt?paintings

The works are expected to go up for auction at a value of ￡5-8 million

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RT 2023-5-15

Two?portraits?believed?to?have?been?painted?by renowned Dutch artist Rembrandt?have?been?discovered?by experts at Christie’s auction?house, the Financial?Times?reported on Sunday.?

The?paintings, which had been?unknown?to?art?scholars, were reportedly?found?in the?private?collection?of a British?family, according to the FT. Christie’s auctioneers were?carrying?out a routine valuation when they came upon two?portraits?of an?elderly?husband?and?wife?from Leiden, Netherlands,?dated?to 1635.??

“I wasn’t?aware?of what I was?going?to be?seeing,”?said?Henry Pettifer,?international?deputy?chair?of?Old?Master?paintings?at Christie’s, after?discovering?the?works. “I?dared?to?dream,” he?added,?saying?it was “extraordinary?to me that the?pictures?had?never?been?studied?before. They were?completely?absent?from the Rembrandt literature.”??

It is reported that ancestors of the?family, whose identity has not been disclosed,?bought?the two?paintings?in 1824 at a Christie’s auction. The?portraits?are?believed?to depict Jan Willemsz van der Pluym and his?wife?Jaapgen Carels – a?couple?said?to?have?had?family?connections to Rembrandt, who?painted?them during a?time?when he was just establishing his reputation as an artist.?

After?discovering?the?paintings, Christie’s experts?conducted?a?series?of?tests?and analyzed the?portraits?to?find?that they?showed?a “virtually unbroken”?line?of provenance extending back to the sitters who commissioned Rembrandt.?

The auction?house?then?sent?the?works?for?further?analysis to the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, which specializes in Rembrandt scholarship. The?museum?conducted?material-technical and?art-historical?research?and confirmed that the?paintings?were indeed by the legendary artist.?

The two 20-centimeter-high?portraits?are set to?go?up for auction at Christie’s showrooms in London on July 6, after?first?going?on display in New York and Amsterdam. Experts?believe?the?works?to be valued at somewhere between ￡5-8 million ($6-10 million) for the pair.??

Rembrandt is?said?to?have?created?some 350?paintings?during his lifetime and is?considered?one of the?greatest?Dutch painters of the?Golden?Age, as well as one of the?greatest?ever visual artists. The?highest?price?ever?fetched?for his?work?was set in 2009, when his ‘Portrait?of a?Man?with?Arms?Akimbo’?sold?for ￡20.2 million at a Christie’s auction.

專(zhuān)家找到了未知的倫勃朗畫(huà)作

這些作品預(yù)期以500-800萬(wàn)英鎊的價(jià)格被拍賣(mài)

據(jù)《金融時(shí)報(bào)》周日?qǐng)?bào)道，佳士得拍賣(mài)行的專(zhuān)家發(fā)現(xiàn)了兩幅被認(rèn)為是荷蘭著名畫(huà)家倫勃朗所作的肖像畫(huà)。

根據(jù)報(bào)道，這些對(duì)于學(xué)者來(lái)說(shuō)未知的畫(huà)在一個(gè)英國(guó)家庭的私人藏品中被找到。當(dāng)佳士得的拍賣(mài)員發(fā)現(xiàn)到這兩幅可以追溯到1635年荷蘭萊頓市的年長(zhǎng)夫妻的肖像時(shí)，他們正在進(jìn)行日常估價(jià)。

“我沒(méi)有意識(shí)到我將看到什么，”古典大視畫(huà)作組織的國(guó)際副主席亨利·佩蒂福（Henry Pettifer）在佳士得說(shuō)?！拔铱梢韵胂螅彼a(bǔ)充到，“這些畫(huà)以前從來(lái)沒(méi)有被研究過(guò)，這對(duì)于我來(lái)說(shuō)是非凡的。關(guān)于倫勃朗的文獻(xiàn)中完全沒(méi)有它們?！?/p>

據(jù)報(bào)道，這個(gè)收藏家庭沒(méi)有被透露身份的祖先，1984年在佳士得拍賣(mài)會(huì)上買(mǎi)下了這兩幅畫(huà)。這些肖像畫(huà)被認(rèn)為描繪了簡(jiǎn)·威廉姆斯·普魯伊姆和他的妻子賈普根·卡雷爾斯。這對(duì)夫婦據(jù)說(shuō)與倫勃朗有家庭關(guān)系上的聯(lián)系。倫勃朗在自己作為藝術(shù)家剛剛建立起聲譽(yù)時(shí)畫(huà)了這些畫(huà)。

在發(fā)現(xiàn)這些畫(huà)后，佳士得的專(zhuān)家對(duì)畫(huà)進(jìn)行了一系列的檢測(cè)和分析，展示了一條“幾乎完整”的來(lái)源鏈，追溯到了委托倫勃朗畫(huà)畫(huà)的人。

之后，拍賣(mài)行將這些畫(huà)送到位于阿姆斯特丹的阿姆斯特丹國(guó)立博物館進(jìn)行進(jìn)一步的分析。該博物館專(zhuān)門(mén)研究倫勃朗領(lǐng)域。該博物館進(jìn)行了材料學(xué)與藝術(shù)史上的研究，確定了作品由那位傳說(shuō)中的藝術(shù)家所作。

兩幅20厘米高的肖像畫(huà)先在紐約和阿姆斯特丹進(jìn)行展出后，計(jì)劃于7月6日在倫敦的佳士得展廳拍賣(mài)。專(zhuān)家預(yù)估這一對(duì)作品的價(jià)格將在500-800萬(wàn)英鎊（600-1000萬(wàn)美元）之間。

據(jù)說(shuō)倫勃朗一生創(chuàng)作了大約350幅畫(huà)，他被認(rèn)為是黃金年代荷蘭最偉大的畫(huà)家，也是最好的視覺(jué)藝術(shù)家之一。他作品的最高成交價(jià)格記錄在2009年的佳士得拍賣(mài)會(huì)上創(chuàng)下，其《雙手叉腰的男人》畫(huà)像以2020萬(wàn)英鎊的價(jià)格成交。