A Salvator Mundi still record but less and less credible

In the catalog of its current exhibition until January 23, 2022 and relating to an old copy of

that it keeps, the Prado does not attribute to Leonardo da Vinci the

of the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia. According to the Madrid museum, this so-called “Cook” version (named after a former owner because there are no less than 22 Leonardo-style paintings in the world representing Christ in the manner of God the Father) amounts to a assistant or a close follower. This further darkens the episode of the highly marketed and hypermedia sale, organized by Christie's New York in 2017. And less justifies the $ 450.3 million disbursed by Mohammed Ben Salman.

Commissioner Ana Gonzalez Mozo even suggests that a prototype made by the master may never have existed.

As to which would be the oldest version, it leans for another

: the version known as “Ganay”, also in private hands.

His pedigree, certainly incomplete, being

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