{"id":916,"date":"2021-11-30T04:37:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-30T04:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=916"},"modified":"2025-09-23T16:13:51","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T16:13:51","slug":"virgin-and-child-drawing-bought-for-30-at-estate-sale-could-be-worth-millions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=916","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Virgin and Child\u2019 drawing bought for $30 at estate sale could be worth millions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000bf;\"><strong>YIKES! <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/aleteia.org\/2021\/11\/29\/virgin-and-child-drawing-bought-for-30-at-estate-sale-could-be-worth-millions\/?utm_campaign=EM-EN-Newsletter-Daily-&amp;utm_content=Newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=sendinblue&amp;utm_term=20211129#\"><span style=\"color: #0000bf;\"><span style=\"color: #111111;\">Artnet News reports that the drawing has been authenticated as an original work by German Renaissance artist Albrecht D\u00fcrer.<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Four years ago, a Massachusetts man was perusing an estate sale when a drawing of the Madonna and Child drew his attention. <strong>There was no indication that the piece was remarkable, besides its artistry, and on that alone he bought it.<\/strong> Now the drawing is making headlines as it may garner millions at auction.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"513\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/6a00d834525a2f69e2026bdf0409cc200c-500wi.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9928\" title=\"Virgin and Child Durer\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/6a00d834525a2f69e2026bdf0409cc200c-500wi.jpg 500w, https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/6a00d834525a2f69e2026bdf0409cc200c-500wi-292x300.jpg 292w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YIKES! Artnet News reports that the drawing has been authenticated as an original work by German Renaissance artist Albrecht D\u00fcrer. Four years ago, a Massachusetts man was perusing an estate sale when a drawing of the Madonna and Child drew his attention. There was no indication that the piece was remarkable, besides its artistry, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=916"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9929,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916\/revisions\/9929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}