![]() “Yes, they called it the Brueghel, but they had no idea it actually was!” Maybe the family was not necessarily interested in this painting,” de Lussac said. “The family ancestors bought the painting as an original, but over the years the real story was completely lost orally. The painting is believed to have been painted between 16 and depicts one of Brueghel the Younger’s common themes “The Village Lawyer" - a bustling legal office in a rural community. It was an ironic twist in their family lore that a work of such importance had been hiding in plain view. The family of the owners, who wished to remain anonymous, acquired the work in 1900, and had always called it affectionally ‘The Brueghel,’ thinking it was fake. “And that’s when in fact I discovered the painting. I started making my estimates in the living room and turning around behind the door, there were two thirds of the painting visible,” Malo de Lussac of the auctioneers Daguerre Val de Loire, told The Associated Press. “I arrived in a small television room which was not very well lit. An expert conducting an estimation request spotted something poking out past a door of the dim family house. The 17th century oil painting - which experts call “exceptional” and was long considered a fake by its owners - was discovered by chance in December collecting dust. ![]() PARIS – One of Flemish painter Pieter Brueghel the Younger's largest known works, whose discovery behind the television room door of a house in northern France amazed the art world, fetched 780,000 euros ($845,000) at auction in Paris Tuesday. ![]()
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