A 400-year-ragged Rembrandt portray thought to contain the actual fingerprints of the Dutch master Rembrandt is expected to fetch over $7 million dollars when it goes up for auction in London next month.
Rembrandt certainly had the King Midas touch in more ways then one. The Mirror reports that the Dutch genius’s fingerprints have been discovered in a four century ragged oil sketch which he himself painted.
Study Of A Head Of A Young Man measures just ten inches high but for such a small portray it packs a powerful punch. One that’s worth Over $7 million according to experts in these things.
The portrait dating from around 1655 portrays Rembrandt’s model as Jesus Christ. Critics have called the 17th century portrait both “powerful and touching.” Here’s the rub. In the lower edge of the portrait,buried in the the original layer of paint, is what are believed to be Rembrandts fingerprints.
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