Overview

• The panel resurfaced during a September 2024 inventory at a private mansion in Paris’ 6th arrondissement conducted by the Osenat auction house.
• Attribution was confirmed by Professor Nils Büttner and an international committee at the Rubenianum in Antwerp after months of examination.
• The oil on panel measures 105.5 by 72.5 centimeters and depicts a solitary, luminous Christ against a dark, stormy sky in very good condition.
• Provenance records indicate ownership by 19th‑century painter William Bouguereau before the work passed into the Paris family where it was found.
• Osenat plans a press presentation next week and a public exhibition before the sale, with an initial estimate reported at €1.5–2 million and the final price uncertain.