A newly discovered bronze by a French Renaissance sculptor was acquired by the Louvre museum for €1.15m (£1.05m) at an auction in Paris on June 9.
The Louvre exercised its right of pre-emption to secure at the fall of the hammer the 10in (25cm) high bronze by the sculptor Ponce Jacquiot (c.1515-70) of a naked woman pulling a thorn from her foot. It had been in the same Parisian family for at least five generations.
Postponed sale