专家找到了未知的伦勃朗画作
Experts find unknown Rembrandt paintings
The works are expected to go up for auction at a value of £5-8 million
*本文系俄媒RT上月15日的报道,本人将其翻译并附带原文上传,旨在学习与练习英语,并不确保翻译的准确性。本文不含直接涉及政治的内容。
RT 2023-5-15
Two portraits believed to have been painted by renowned Dutch artist Rembrandt have been discovered by experts at Christie’s auction house, the Financial Times reported on Sunday.
The paintings, which had been unknown to art scholars, were reportedly found in the private collection of a British family, according to the FT. Christie’s auctioneers were carrying out a routine valuation when they came upon two portraits of an elderly husband and wife from Leiden, Netherlands, dated to 1635.
“I wasn’t aware of what I was going to be seeing,” said Henry Pettifer, international deputy chair of Old Master paintings at Christie’s, after discovering the works. “I dared to dream,” he added, saying it was “extraordinary to me that the pictures had never been studied before. They were completely absent from the Rembrandt literature.”
It is reported that ancestors of the family, whose identity has not been disclosed, bought the two paintings in 1824 at a Christie’s auction. The portraits are believed to depict Jan Willemsz van der Pluym and his wife Jaapgen Carels – a couple said to have had family connections to Rembrandt, who painted them during a time when he was just establishing his reputation as an artist.
After discovering the paintings, Christie’s experts conducted a series of tests and analyzed the portraits to find that they showed a “virtually unbroken” line of provenance extending back to the sitters who commissioned Rembrandt.
The auction house then sent the works for further analysis to the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, which specializes in Rembrandt scholarship. The museum conducted material-technical and art-historical research and confirmed that the paintings were indeed by the legendary artist.
The two 20-centimeter-high portraits are set to go up for auction at Christie’s showrooms in London on July 6, after first going on display in New York and Amsterdam. Experts believe the works to be valued at somewhere between £5-8 million ($6-10 million) for the pair.
Rembrandt is said to have created some 350 paintings during his lifetime and is considered one of the greatest Dutch painters of the Golden Age, as well as one of the greatest ever visual artists. The highest price ever fetched for his work was set in 2009, when his ‘Portrait of a Man with Arms Akimbo’ sold for £20.2 million at a Christie’s auction.

专家找到了未知的伦勃朗画作
这些作品预期以500-800万英镑的价格被拍卖
据《金融时报》周日报道,佳士得拍卖行的专家发现了两幅被认为是荷兰著名画家伦勃朗所作的肖像画。
根据报道,这些对于学者来说未知的画在一个英国家庭的私人藏品中被找到。当佳士得的拍卖员发现到这两幅可以追溯到1635年荷兰莱顿市的年长夫妻的肖像时,他们正在进行日常估价。
“我没有意识到我将看到什么,”古典大视画作组织的国际副主席亨利·佩蒂福(Henry Pettifer)在佳士得说。“我可以想象,”他补充到,“这些画以前从来没有被研究过,这对于我来说是非凡的。关于伦勃朗的文献中完全没有它们。”
据报道,这个收藏家庭没有被透露身份的祖先,1984年在佳士得拍卖会上买下了这两幅画。这些肖像画被认为描绘了简·威廉姆斯·普鲁伊姆和他的妻子贾普根·卡雷尔斯。这对夫妇据说与伦勃朗有家庭关系上的联系。伦勃朗在自己作为艺术家刚刚建立起声誉时画了这些画。
在发现这些画后,佳士得的专家对画进行了一系列的检测和分析,展示了一条“几乎完整”的来源链,追溯到了委托伦勃朗画画的人。
之后,拍卖行将这些画送到位于阿姆斯特丹的阿姆斯特丹国立博物馆进行进一步的分析。该博物馆专门研究伦勃朗领域。该博物馆进行了材料学与艺术史上的研究,确定了作品由那位传说中的艺术家所作。
两幅20厘米高的肖像画先在纽约和阿姆斯特丹进行展出后,计划于7月6日在伦敦的佳士得展厅拍卖。专家预估这一对作品的价格将在500-800万英镑(600-1000万美元)之间。
据说伦勃朗一生创作了大约350幅画,他被认为是黄金年代荷兰最伟大的画家,也是最好的视觉艺术家之一。他作品的最高成交价格记录在2009年的佳士得拍卖会上创下,其《双手叉腰的男人》画像以2020万英镑的价格成交。
