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...The painting once passed through the hands of Giuliano Ruffini....
...Forensic tests on another painting sold by Sotheby’s that had passed through the hands of Giuliano Ruffini, a French dealer-collector, have revealed it to be a modern forgery....
...The only name certainly attached to it was that of the French dealer who sold it: Giuliano Ruffini....
...Sotheby’s has now sent Orion a painting of Saint Jerome that it sold in 2012 for $842,500 as from the circle of the 16th-century artist Parmigianino....
...The Arezzo-born painter and mathematician, who worked for both Sigismondo and Federico, is represented here by several works – a fresco fragment depicting “San Giuliano” (1445-50), “St Jerome in the Desert...
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