“ The painting is anticipated to fetch between $5 million and
$7.7 million when it appears at a Sotheby's auction next month.
A painting that bought at public sale for $40,000
in 2008 is predicted to fetch no less than $5 million when it goes below the hammer next month-and also you cannot completely blame inflation. There was additionally one thing scraped away from a corner of the painting earlier than armor was added, per Artnet.
What's extra, the work is believed to be the original model on which another of Rubens' major works, beforehand thought to be unique, is predicated, Artnet stories.
It resurfaced in Missouri in 1963, but the attribution to Rubens was lost.
It was confirmed in April with an X-ray evaluation, which also showed the work to be the
unique version of Rubens' St. Sebastian Healed by Angels, held at Rome's
Galleria Corsini. ”