Curious de-accessions no.26
July 15 2011
Picture: Toledo Museum of Art
A reader writes:
In 1953 the Fitzwilliam Museum sold a painting at Sotheby's for £350. This important Valentin de Boulogne - a rare artist in British collections as I know of only the one work in the National Gallery - is now in the Toledo Museum of Art.
Zoom in on it here, and shed a tear...
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