Experts see hand of Caravaggio in previously anonymous painting

AP Worldstream | December 11, 2007| | Copyright

A casual glance at an auction catalog set a British art historian on the path to discovering the brushstrokes of Caravaggio on a painting previously attributed to an anonymous follower of the Baroque master.

Experts in Italy believe a copy of Caravaggio's "The Cardsharps" which surfaced at a London auction last year is an earlier version of the 1594 painting now displayed at the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas.

The previously anonymous work was bought at a Sotheby's auction in December 2006 by art historian and collector Denis Mahon and will be first ...

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