€330,000 Nicolas Tournier pre-empted by Musée des Augustins
November 21 2024
Picture: Millon
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
This rather finely painted Lute Player by Nicolas Tournier, plucking what I can see is a rather nicely detailed 10-course instrument, realised a respectable €330,000 over its €150k - €200k estimate earlier this week at Millon. It was so highly admired that the Musée des Augustins in Toulouse have already 'pre-empted' it for their own collection. The unrecorded painting has been in a private collection for well over two centuries, and although it had been known from sources from the period it had always been considered missing.
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