Faure’s Roman landscape featuring Pantheon exceeds $250K at Dreweatts

Jean Victor Louis Faure, ‘Market Day, the Pantheon, Rome,’ £200,000
Jean Victor Louis Faure, ‘Market Day, the Pantheon, Rome,’ £200,000
Jean Victor Louis Faure, ‘Market Day, the Pantheon, Rome,’ £200,000

LONDON – A recently discovered work by esteemed French 19th-century painter Jean Victor Louis Faure (1786-1879) stole the spotlight in Dreweatts Old Master, British and European Art sale on May 26 when it sold for £200,000 (about $252,000) – more than six times its low estimate of £30,000. The painting had been discovered in a family home in Norfolk, where it hung unnoticed for 60 years.

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