/ Europe Issued on: 18/01/2023 – 14:48 Modified: 18/01/2023 – 15:29 01:24 Madonna apparently purchased the painting looking like the one that was lost for $1.3 million at an auction in 1989, and an art conservator then found the magnum opus in a picture taken in her house and released in French publication Paris Match. © GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA, AFP/File image The mayor of Amiens in northern France has actually launched a video “asking for” that Madonna “loan” the city a painting from her individual collection which looks like one lost there throughout World War I. The 19th-century work, “Diane and Endymion” by artist Jerome-Martin Langlois, is “most likely” the very same one “lent by the Louvre to the Fine Art Museum in Amiens prior to World War I and which consequently vanished”, Brigitte Fouré stated in a video message to the Queen of Pop published on Facebook. “Obviously, we do not disagreement in any method the legal acquisition that you made from this work,” Foure included. Rather she asked the vocalist for a “loan” to display it in 2028, when Amiens wishes to be the year’s European Capital of Culture. Providing the image would permit “the occupants to find this work and enjoy it,” the mayor stated. The painting’s possible provenance was recommended by paper Le Figaro in an examination released this month. Cost auction for $1.3 million to Madonna in 1989, an art conservator found the magnum opus in an image of her house released in publication Paris Match. It represents a mythological scene of the bare-breasted goddess Diana approaching the shepherd Endymion. “I’m not particular that it’s the real painting”, however even if a copy, “it’s incredibly comparable to the work” and “I ‘d like individuals of Amiens to be able to see it once again,” Fouré stated. Langlois’ initial work was purchased in 1817 to embellish the royal Versailles palace outside Paris, stated Francois Seguin, interim director of the Picardie Museum– previously Amiens’ Fine Art Museum. It was lent by Paris’ Louvre Museum to the northern city from 1872, up until being stated missing out on after World War I. Madonna’s painting “is probably a copy, probably by the artist himself”, the Louvre stated when it displayed the painting in 1988. Her variation does not have the artist’s signature, the date of the work and his stamp, and is around 3 centimetres (one inch) smaller sized than the initial, making it “not most likely” that it’s the very same work, professional Seguin stated. “it’s the only proof of the work that was lost,” he included. (AFP)
French mayor states Madonna ‘most likely’ has actually painting lost throughout WWI, requests for loan
