A portrait of Marie-Antoinette discovered by chance up for auction

The owners of the painting owned a famous property without knowing it.

This Thursday afternoon, the Aguttes auction house, in Neuilly-sur-Seine (Hauts-de-Seine), will auction a portrait of Marie-Antoinette painted in 1771 by Joseph-Siffred Duplessis, reports

The work was first presented by its owners as the “portrait of a marquise”.

One of the managers of the auction house recognized Marie Antoinette and attributed the painting to the famous portrait painter of Louis XVI.

It is in fact a sketch of a painting commissioned in 1771 by Empress Marie-Thérèse of Austria, the mother of Marie-Antoinette, then Dauphine of France.

Opening bid: 20,000 to 30,000 euros

The painting, an oil painting, had therefore disappeared a hundred years before resurfacing last September.

However, its price appears to be "reasonable": between 20,000 and 30.00 euros.

"The message to the market is clear: to show that the painting is not in the hands of people who are speculating," Grégoire Lacroix assured Le

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