Italian police said on Friday they had seized a painting on display by the 17th century Flemish master Peter Paul Rubens after a fraud investigation into its owners.
ROME — Italian police said on Friday they had seized a painting on display by the 17The masterpiece, calledappears to his mother, was part of a “Rubens in Genoa” exhibition in the city’s Doge’s Palace. The police are not accusing the exhibition of any wrongdoing.Genoa police said in a statement they believed its Italian owners, who were not named, had used false documents to send it abroad as part of an operation to increase its market value.
They also allegedly set up foreign companies in order to pretend to have sold the painting, which shows Jesus greeting his mother, with an unknown third woman between them. This third figure was absent from an earlier version of the same work by Rubens but there’s no suggestion that the painting is fake. —
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