Lost Hayez painting recovered
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01 Giugno 2021
ROME, JUN 1 - A lost work by great 19th-century
Italian Romantic painter Francesco Hayez has been recovered, art
cops said Tuesday.
The oil on canvas was inspired by a melodramatic story involving
Louis XIV of France and one of his mistresses, Mademoiselle de
La Vallère.
Until 1838 it was on show in Milan s famed Brera Gallery
alongside Hayez s most iconic work, The Kiss.
The work was discovered among the paintings of a private
Milanese collector who did not know he had such a famous work.
It was identified by experts from the Il Ponte auction house.