On July 23rd at the New Orleans auction house Crescent City Auction Gallery, carrying a pre-sale estimate of $8,000-12,000. The painting of "St. Joseph and the Infant Jesus" shows convincing signs of a 17th Century work of art. Although supports were added in the 19th Century, the painting seems to be genuine and not a fake. The picture is being cataloged as being from the School of Bartolome Esteban Murillo. 

A New Orleans auction house has discovered a great example of 17th century painting depicting St. Joseph and the Infant Jesus.

New Old Master Discovered and Appraised in New Orleans

Sotheby's will be hosting a two day sale on June 13-15 in Milan of a single owner collection of Old Masters, furniture, and travel books.

Sotheby’s, New York, forthcoming Old Master sale features one of Batoni’s most dramatic figural compositions, a large canvas of Susanna and the Elders, which was commissioned in 1751 by Count Ernst Guido von Harrach of Vienna and sent by the Harrach family for sale in London in 1991.

Batoni’s Susanna and the Elders goes on sale in New York