Blame Pieter Bruegel the Elder was confirmed during the restoration carried out by the museum.

Painting "Junket in St. Martin's Day" came on the restoration of the Museo del Prado from the famous Spanish collector. Mentions that in the XVII century painting owned by Duke Medinacheli.

Current owners of paintings believed that a work by Pieter Brueghel the Younger. They brought the painting to the museum for clearance, with the possibility of acquiring its museum. However, once the experts began to gently remove pollution by analyzing the pigment on canvas, brushwork, they came to a stunning conclusion. As noted by the head of the Flemish art of the Prado Museum Pilar Silva Marato (Pilar Silva Marato), «brushwork, with its skilled, confident strokes, then, as written draping clothes, the way light falls on their faces and cups, some shade and a choice of colors - all this is characteristic of Pieter Bruegel the Elder. " A Sept. 6 by radiography failed to detect the signature of the author and dating Roman numerals between 1565 and 1568 years.

Prado curators consider this finding a key in recent years. This canvas size 148 x 270,5 cm is the largest work of Pieter Bruegel the Elder and one of the few of his signed works. Before the findings in the Prado was known to 40 paintings by Pieter Brueghel the Elder; "Junket in St. Martin's Day" became the forty-first. Arrangement of more than a hundred pieces of spiral curls around the huge red barrels of wine, each of which hastens sip sip on the occasion.

Do Prado already have one painting by Brueghel the Elder - "The Triumph of Death." The Museum hopes to buy "Feast Day of St. Martin and is willing to pay for it up to 7 million euros. In the meantime, the picture that has damage, it remains on the restoration.

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