Rembrandt’s ‘Portrait of Girl’ Fetches a Record $10.3 Million
A Rembrandt portrait of a young girl sold at auction today for $10.3 million, the highest price ever paid for a painting by the artist. It was the first major Rembrandt work to be auctioned in 21 years.
Sotheby’s auction house said the winning bid for “Portrait of a Girl Wearing a Gold-Trimmed Coat” was made by an agent acting for an anonymous private collector.
The previous record for a painting by Rembrandt van Rijn was $2.3 million for the 17th-Century artist’s “Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer,” bought in 1961 by the Metropolitan Museum of New York. That was the highest auction price for a painting at that time.
The Rembrandt sold today, painted in 1632, was inherited by a group of descendants of Robert Treat Paine II of Boston, and they decided to sell it. It had been expected to sell for between $1.9 million and $2.5 million.
The portrait, which had been on loan to the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston since 1966, was once owned by Prince Johannes II of Liechtenstein.
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