Colnaghi to manage Madrid Caravaggio restoration, authentication, and sale
Renowned gallery will lead scholarly assessment, scientific analysis, restoration, and subsequent sale. Photo: Ansorena.
MADRID
.-Colnaghi gallery has been selected to spearhead the scholarly assessment, scientific analysis, and restoration of an Ecce Homo painting now understood to be by the great Baroque master Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. The oil on canvas depicting Christ being crowned with thorns was originally attributed to the circle of the 17th-century Spanish painter José de Ribera. The painting, which has been in the family of the Pé rez de Castro Méndez for centuries, was set to be sold at auction in Madrid before the family was alerted of its possible reattribution. The family subsequently withdrew the work from auction and the Ministry of Culture has issued an exportation block of the painting from Spain until its attribution and possibly authentication process is complete.
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Old Master dealers Colnaghi gallery have agreed to coordinate the scholarly assessment, scientific analysis, and restoration of an Ecce Homo painting thought to be by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio.
The work, titled The Crowning of Thorns, was due to go under the hammer at Ansorena auction house on 8 April with a guide price of €1,500. The painting is owned by the three children of Antonio Pérez de Castro, founder of Madrid’s IADE design school.
The oil on canvas depicting Christ being crowned with thorns was initially attributed to the “circle” of the 17th-century Spanish painter José de Ribera. The painting, which has been in the family of the Pé rez de Castro Méndez for centuries, was set to be sold at auction in Madrid before the family was alerted of its possible reattribution. The family subsequently withdrew the work from auction. The Ministry of Culture has issued an exportation block of the painting from S
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