Christie's To Auction Giant Old Masters Painting
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Christie's New York is auctioning off the largest Old Masters painting it has ever displayed.
Hubert Robert's "Le Pont Sur Le Torrent" has not been seen in public in more than 50 years.
It's being auctioned off at Christie's in Manhattan and estimated to sell for $2 million to $3 million.
The oil on canvas painting is over 20-feet wide and 13-feet high.
It was formerly owned by newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst and was originally commissioned in 1780 by a French Duke for his Paris townhouse.
The painting goes up for bid on January 27.