Priceless 17th century caravaggio painting discovered behind mattresses in old french attic.
French attic painting.
It took five years of verification and restoration to prepare the 1607 caravaggio for auction.
A painting stumbled upon in the attic of a house in france is an authentic work by italian renaissance master caravaggio and could be worth up to 120 million euros a178m experts said.
A painting described as a lost caravaggio masterpiece has been bought two days before it was due to go under the hammer in france.
It is expected to go for 170 million.
In 2014 french auctioneer marc labarbe received a phone call from a friend.
The owners of the house near the southwestern city of toulouse discovered the dramatic 400 year old painting when they went to fix a leak in the ceiling.
The attic of their toulouse home had yielded a surprising discovery.
A painting coated in dust and stained by a water.