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A picture of the 13th-century Italian primitive master Cimabue , estimated between 4 and 6 million euros , was found in a house in the French town of Compiegne , north of Paris . The family did not know the value of the work and had it hung between the living room and the kitchen.
The finding was confirmed by the cabinet of experts Turquin , who authenticated the painting and announced that it will be auctioned on October 27 in Senlis, which will constitute the first sale of a painting by this Italian painter in decades.
The mocked Christ , a small painting painted on poplar wood of 25.8 by 20.3 centimeters, was part of a series of panels in which the pre-Renaissance artist embodied scenes of the passion of Christ.
Until now two of these scenes were known, a Flagellation of Christ , which is preserved in the Frick collection in New York , and an image of the Virgin that is in the National Gallery in London .
For the Turquín cabinet, the attribution to Cimabue is "evident" because of the similarity it has with other works of the Italian master. He also indicated that infrared tests show that its conservation status is excellent .
The painting arrived at the Actéon auction house by the hand of an old woman who considered it to be a small icon without value. For years he was hanging in the hallway that separates the kitchen from the living room in his home in Compiegne. The woman could not explain how the work had come to her family .
Actéon asked Turquin, specialized in ancient masters, to analyze the work and this cabinet concluded that it belonged to Cimabue .
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