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Dusty painting hidden behind door turns out to be Brueghel 'masterpiece'

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A rediscovered painting by Flemish 17th-century painter Pieter Brueghel the Younger, for years hidden in a family house, will be presented for in Paris on Tuesday and is expected to fetch 600,000 to 800,000 euros ($649,000 to $865,000).The painting “L’Avocat du village (the Village Lawyer)” is one of Brueghel’s largest known works, measuring 112 centimeters (44 inches) high and 184 centimeters (72 inches) wide, and was unknown in the art world as the most recent generation of the family who had possessed it since the 1900s thought it was fake.

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