A Lost Rembrandt Painting Valued At 240 Million Reportedly Found By Accident
Antonella Di Francesco is a professional art restorer who received the painting after the 2016 mishap, and it didn’t take her long to suspect that the piece might have been the original Rembrandt painting that was long believed to have been lost. She was able to make the determination precisely after cleaning away the centuries’ worth of varnish from its surface. In a press release about the discovery, Di Francesco explains that it represents the dream of anyone in the art restoration field: “During my work one of the most beautiful things that can happen during a lifetime: the sudden awareness of being in front of a work by a very great author who reveals himself to you, which comes out of its opaque zone and chooses you to be redeemed from the darkness....