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Tuesday, 24 March 2015 11:18

The Director of the Rubenshuis Says Painting Deaccessioned by the Met is an Authentic Rubens Portrait

Rubens' 'Portrait of a Young Girl, Possibly Clara.' Rubens' 'Portrait of a Young Girl, Possibly Clara.' Wikimedia Commons

A portrait of Rubens’ young daughter Clara Serena, recently deaccessioned by New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, is going on display at the Rubenshuis in Antwerp. In 2013, it was auctioned as by a “follower of Rubens”, with an estimate of $20,000-$30,000. Now upgraded as authentic, it will hang in the artist’s own house, in the exhibition “Rubens in Private: the Master Portrays his Family” (March 28-June 28).

The earliest certain provenance of the portrait goes back to a New York collector in the 1930s and it was considered authentic until the American specialist Julius Held downgraded it in 1959.

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