Watch the bidding for the rediscovered Quentin Metsys’s masterpiece, ‘The Madonna of the Cherries’ which has been acquired by the Getty Center @gettymuseum
Sold for £10,660,000 at Christie’s London in The Old Masters Part I Sale, this painting’s acquisition makes ‘The Madonna of the Cherries’ the second work by Metsys to enter the museum’s collection of Netherlandish painting.
Dating from the 1520s and painted at the height of Metsys’s career, ‘The Madonna of the Cherries’, became one of his most celebrated singular masterpieces, inspiring generations of artists.
