At Prayer, painted in 1858 by Jean-Léon Gérôme, is to be offered at Sotheby’s estimated at £80,000- 120,000.
A picture bought for around £4000 and eventually authenticated on the BBC programme Fake or Fortune? as by 19th-century French artist Jean-Léon Gérôme is to be offered at Sotheby’s estimated at £80,000-120,000.
The owner of the picture, Los Angeles artist Jon Swihart, had purchased it at auction in 1999 for $6325 (£4048) when it had been catalogued as Circle of Jean-Léon Gérôme.