Tuesday, June 13, 2017

Getty Museum Gets $31M Italian Old Master Because No UK Museum Tried To Match Price

"The J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles has successfully acquired Parmigianino's £24.5m painting of The Virgin and Child with Saint Mary Magdalen and the Infant St John the Baptist. ... The painting was sold by the Dent-Brocklehurst family of Sudeley Castle, Gloucestershire, and has been in the UK for nearly 250 years."



Article source here:Arts Journal

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