Old Master’s new look: Met Museum pays €5m after X-ray reveals the original work
In the third multi-million-pound sale this year of a rediscovered Old Master at a provincial French auction house, a late Gothic panel offered at Cortot & Associés of Dijon brought a dramatic competition late last month.
The work was knocked down at €5m (£4.27m) to a dealer acting for the Metropolitan Museum of Art in…