Experts believe they have discovered a new Leonardo da Vinci painting. A Montreal-based forensic art expert Peter Paul Biro is convinced that he has found another Leonardo. In order to identify the artist a century’s old-fingerprint on the presumed 19th-century German painting was matched against a fingerprint found on a verified Leonardo. The fingerprints matched and the results speak for themselves.
The painting was bought in 2007 by a Canadian art collector Peter Silverman for an anonymous Swiss Collector. The painting is of a young woman that looks like a German princess and is known as the "Profile of the Bella Principessa." Before being purchased in 2007 the painting was at the Ganz gallery in New York for several years.
The art dealer Kate Ganz had owned it for just about 11 years after buying it at an auction for a similar price. The painting held the price tag of $19,000. However, since the discovery, the painting could now sell for as much as $150 million.
Many experts in the past disputed whether the piece was actually a Leonardo. However, science proved that it was a genuine Leonardo and the piece could fetch at auction millions of dollars. This was one heck of an investment and the Ganz Gallery in New York has to be kicking itself, because they had the painting for 11 years and missed their opportunity.
This piece of art is the first major Leonardo discovery identified in over 100 years. Biro defends his results by explaining that the print of an index or middle finger was found on the painting and that it matched a fingerprint found on Leonardo's "
Apparently fingerprints are found in several of da Vinci's works. By using multispectral imaging they were able to get a readable fingerprint from
So not only does the paining have Leonardo's fingerprint, but also the technique, style, and material composition. Everything points to Leonardo. Experts were initially reluctant to say it was a Leonardo including the Swiss owner. However the science has proven the theory to be correct and even curators at the British Museum are confirming the find.
Many were skeptical at first especially the Swiss owner.He didn't believe it was a Leonardo and even told Silverman that but regardless the painting was purchased and the testing began. Science has proven otherwise and the "Profile of the Bella Pincipessa" is a Leonardo and now its value is priceless, but the price tag will jump from $19,000 to $150 million.
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