Poland Buys Da Vinci Painting in $105 Million Art Deal

 
'Lady with an Ermine' by Da Vinci Photographer: Jacek Bednarczyk/AFP via Getty Images

January 2017, (via Bloomberg.com) 

The Polish government agreed to buy a local aristocratic family’s art collection, which includes the 1490 Leonardo da Vinci masterpiece “Lady with an Ermine” for 100 million euros ($104.6 million). 

The agreement sees Poland taking over more than 300,000 pieces of art and a library collection owned by the Czartoryski Foundation, which has sought to preserve Polish heritage for 200 years. The da Vinci painting is insured for 300 million euros when it travels, while “Landscape with the Good Samaritan” by Rembrandt van Rijn is insured for 160 million zloty ($37.9 million). The most expensive da Vinci painting to date is “Salvator Mundi,” which was sold for $127.5 million in 2013.

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