An oil painting found covered in manure in a barn in the United States has been identified as the work of the 17th-century painter Antony Van Dyke (1599-1641), and is about to be auctioned off.
According to the British daily The Times on the 20th local time, this oil painting found in a barn in New York in the early 2000s will be auctioned at Sotheby's New York on the 26th.
The place where this oil painting was found was a barn in 'Kinder Hook', a small town established in New York by Dutch immigrants in the late 17th century. I bought it for 600 dollars (approximately 750,000 won in Korean currency).
Roberts hung this oil painting in his home for a long time and suspected that it might be a study by Van Dyck for 'Saint Hieronymus and the Angel' completed between 1618 and 1620, but as he passed away in 2021, this oil painting was one of Roberts' legacy. Appeared at auction as one.
Afterwards, art historian Susan Barnes, known as a Van Dyke expert, appraised the painting and concluded that it is a 'rarely extant real-life study by Van Dyke'.
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▲'Saint Jeeronymus' by Van Dyck at the Rotterdam Museum
Van Dyck painted under Rubens, who was famous in Northern Europe, and later left his mark as a British court painter by painting figures of Charles I and the English court.
This painting, revealed as his work, was produced in the size of 95 cm in height and 58.5 cm in width, and contains an old man with a white beard.
This painting was titled 'Study for St. Jeeronymus', and in fact, 'St.
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Sotheby's expected an auction price of 3 million dollars (approximately 3.7 billion Korean won), and Sotheby's oil painting manager Christopher Apostle said that it is possible that Van Dyke painted this study while working in Rubens' studio in Flanders, Belgium, in his late teens. I estimated that there is.
Meanwhile, while it's unclear how the oil painting came to New York State, experts say it's not uncommon for such works to be found in unexpected places.
Earlier, in 2014, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio's 1607 painting 'Judith and Holofernes' was found in an attic in southern France and judged to be authentic.
(Photo = Yonhap News, Sotheby's)