A small pen and ink painting by Leonardo da Vinci that has been buried unknown in the box for decades. It is at the center of a battle between the owner and the French Ministry of Culture that will play out in a Paris court on Wednesday.slot xo
The courts will begin to consider whether the painting of the deceased Saint Sebastian slashed against a tree is allowed to leave France to eventually be purchased by a foreign buyer.
This work is one of several paintings and engravings
by its owner, Jean B., who is 80 years old and asked not to be named. Received as a gift from my father who passed the medical school exams in 1959.
The young doctor was more of a rock fanatic than an art lover. and immediately forgot about it for half a century.Stumbled across a box of paintings again during a move in 2016, he decided to give the paintings to the Tajan auction house to give them value.