Work by 16th century master is expected to fetch between £15m and £25m when it goes on sale at Christie’s
Work by 16th century master is expected to fetch between £15m and £25m when it goes on sale at Christie’sA highly coveted painting by the Renaissance master Titian that was stolen in 1809 then again in 1995 – after which it was discovered in a plastic bag at aThe Venetian painter is believed to have created Rest on the Flight into Egypt in 1508 when he was barely 20.
The painting has been stolen twice over its history – first in 1809 from Belvedere Palace in Vienna by Napoleon Bonaparte’s troops and then in the mid-1990s when itsaid the painting was “prized for its vividly coloured scene of familial affection within the natural world”, and that, “like its subjects, The Rest on the Flight into Egypt has been on a long and eventful journey – a journey that’s far from over.
The most colourful part of that journey so far was perhaps when the painting was taken from the first-floor drawing room of the Longleat stately home in 1995. After a seven-year hunt, the painting, valued at more than £5m at the time, wasHill, who died in 2021, said he had been led to the spot by a man he described as a cross between Arthur Daley and Lovejoy, the rogue characters of two TV series that ran in the 1980s and 1990s, in return for a £100,000 reward.
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