A rare painting by Bruegel the Younger was found in a private house in France

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A painting by the Dutch artist Pieter Bruegel the Younger was discovered at the home of a French family.

About the event the The Guardian.

One of Bruegel the Younger's greatest works, painted between 1615 and 1617, has been hanging just outside someone's door since 1900. The owners, who wished to remain anonymous, called a representative of the auction house Daguerre Val de Loire to evaluate the work.

Expertise confirmed the originality of the work. "Having realized the value of the painting, with which they lived all this time, the family asked to take a picture of them with it. It was both funny and touching," the auction house said. The cost of the work is estimated at 800 euros. The painting will be sold at an auction in Paris.

Image: Pieter Bruegel the Younger, by Antonis van Dyck

Pieter Bruegel the Younger was born in 1564 in Brussels, in the family of the Flemish artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder. His younger brother Jan Bruegel the Elder was also an artist. Bruegel the Younger painted landscapes, religious subjects and scenes of village life.

His work "Village Lawyer" depicts a chaotic queue of peasants in a lawyer's office. In addition to the signed and dated versions of this painting, there are also dozens of similar canvases, the authorship of which has not been confirmed. The original version of the work from 1617 hangs in the Louvre.

 

 

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