A Renaissance painting once stolen from a nobleman's home in south west England and found at a bus stop in London may sell for $32 million at an art auction next month. Tiziano Vecellio’s early masterpiece, “The Rest on the Flight into Egypt,” has had many homes since it was painted, presumably in the first decade of the 16th century, according to Christie's.
It was first documented in the collection of a 17th century Venetian spice merchant, before it was sold to English nobleman James Hamilton in 1638 and sent to London, according to Christie's. The Titian piece was then acquired by Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria and taken to Vienna, where it was 'looted by Napoleonic troops during the French occupation of the city in 1809.
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