Long-Lost Rembrandt Falls Off Wall

A Rembrandt painting has been rediscovered after it fell off the wall of a home in Italy in 2016 and was sent for restoration. The Italian Heritage Foundation recently confirmed the painting, The Adoration of the Magi, was painted around 1632-1633. Art restorer Antonella Di Francesco said the painting had been darkened by old varnish, but during the restoration it became clear that it was a Rembrandt. The painting could be worth between US$83.5 and $238 million.

Many of Rembrandt’s paintings have been lost to time, but every so often one resurfaces. In 2018, Dutch art dealer Jan Six claimed to have discovered Rembrandt’s Portrait of a Young Gentleman (1635). In 2020, a Rembrandt thought to be a fake, Head of a Bearded Man

(ca. 1630), was re-attributed to the artist after its frame was discovered to come from a tree felled around the time the artwork was painted.