Fingerprints of Leonardo da Vinci are found from paintings purchased at the price of disqualification

"Young Girl in Profile in Renaissance Dress" (a profile of a girl in a Renaissance's dress) bidding for $ 19,000 (about 1.7 million yen) at Christie's auction in New York in 1998 as "German work in the early 19th century" ) "Portrait calledLeonardo da VinciIt is very likely that it is a undiscovered piece of work.

Fingerprints found in paintings seem to be the biggest decisors, but if they are proven to be the true work of Da Vinci, they are worth billions of yen worth.

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This is that portrait. Approximately 33 x 23 cm, chalk pen, ink on parchment.


Current owner is Peter Silverman born in Canada. It is said that in 2007 purchased at nearly the same price from art dealer Kate Ganz of New York who bid this painting in 1998. According to Kate Ganz, "It may be that a German painter who is studying Italy may have duplicated a painting by Da Vinci", but Silverman sees this painting and hears the high-fidelity of his chest Remembering, "I instantly thought that it might be due to a painter in Florence, and immediately he came up with the possibility of Leonardo," he asked the expert to appraise.

As a result, a fingerprint of the middle finger or the index finger was found from the upper left of the painting,Vatican Art MuseumCollection by Da Vinci "St. Jerome in the WildernessIt matches "highly agree" with the fingerprints discovered from "Wilderness Saint Jerome". "Saint Jeromeus of the Wilderness" seems to be very likely to be a fingerprint of Da Vinci himself, because it was a work in the early days of Da Vinci when he was not using his disciples yet.

The part where the fingerprint was found.


In addition, it is clear that this painting is due to a left-handed painter (Da Vinci is left-handed), and in analysis by infraredWindsor CastleThere is remarkable similarity to the technique "Portrait of a Woman in Profile" of the collection and the carbon age measurement was 1440 to 1650, the da Vinci 's lifetime (1452 - 1519) and the girl in the painting the latter half of the fifteenth century It was confirmed that it ages with Milan style clothes as well.

If it is Da Vinci, it will be the only work on the parchment known so far, but "Da Vinci was the French court painter in 1494Jean PerréalI have asked questions about the technique of painting with chalk with colored parchment on the parchment, "says Martin Kemp, emeritus professor at the University of Oxford's art history. According to Professor Kemp, "As we go through the elimination method, it became a model that the Duke of MilanLudovico SforzaIt is highly probable that it is Bianca Sforza, the daughter of the mistress Bernardina de Corradis (1452-1508).