Found an unknown painting by Leonardo da Vinci

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Honorary Professor of Art History at Oxford Martin Kemp (Martin Kemp) claims that he was able to detect an unknown painting by Leonardo da Vinci, wrote on October 12 The Antiques Trade Gazette. The painting, entitled "Profile of a young girl in a dress of the Renaissance" found a fingerprint similar to Da Vinci prints.
According to Kemp, multispectral analysis showed that the stamp in the upper left corner of the picture with high probability identical fingerprints on da Vinci's painting "Saint Jerome", housed in the Vatican Museum, and was written in 1481, when Italian artist was relatively unknown and did not resort to care assistants.
In addition, Kemp noted that the picture, as the analysis was carried out by left-handed and has stylistic similarities with another sheet of da Vinci - Portrait of a woman in profile.
Painting of 33 to 24 is executed on canvas or parchment. According to Kemp, despite the fact that among the paintings of Leonardo da Vinci, there is not one that would have been done on parchment, Italian painter, was interested in this technology and asked about her court painter of France, Jean Perrealya in 1494, when he came to Milan.
According to Kemp, the picture was painted around 1496, as depicted in her Bianca Maria Sforza, daughter of the Duke of Milan, Ludovico Sforza. If you guess scientists have confirmed, this portrait will be the first portrait of the daughter of Ludovico Sforza, Leonardo da Vinci satisfied.
The painting was bought at Christie's auction in 1998 for 19 thousand dollars and now owned by collector from Europe Silvermanu Peter (Peter Silverman). If the experts can confirm that the picture painted by Leonardo da Vinci, its cost, estimated at the newspaper, can rise to 100 million pounds (157.84 million dollars).
(According to the publication of The Antiques Trade Gazette)