OpEdNews: "PETER'S NEW YORK, Monday, January 25, 2010--On Thursday, Sotheby's will be auctioning a painting that some have argued is the work of Leonardo da Vinci. Estimates provided by the auction house are in the range of $300,000 to $500,000, reflecting Sotheby's contention that it is by a lesser hand, for if recognized experts affirmed it was by the legendary Renaissance painter,the bidding would likely top a hundred million dollars.
The provenance of the painting is in dispute, and a controversy arose in the first half of the last century as to who painted the portrait in question. Another portrait, very much like it, hangs in the Louvre. The two are so similar that it is usually assumed that one is a copy of the other. The question is, which is the original?
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