Two Pietro Lorenzetti make their debut at the Louvre

7/3/24 - Acquisition - Paris, Musée du Louvre - Although announced at the end of November, the rediscovery of two previously unseen panels by Pietro Lorenzetti (ill. 1 and 2) by the Tajan auction house and the experts at Turquin immediately raised the hopes of many lovers of Italian painting, who immediately began to see it as an ideal Christmas present for the Musée du Louvre. It has to be said that the Sienese artist is as important as he is rare in museums as he is on the market - only around thirty works are known to exist - and the appearance of these two paintings in a public sale was a welcome surprise. Although there has never been any debate over their attribution, the identification of these saintly figures remains clearly controversial, since they were proposed as Saint…