Portrait of a Woman Called ‘La Belle Ferronniere,’” by a follower of Leonardo da Vinci, is shown in this undated photo. NEW YORK â” An oil painting once erroneously believed to have been by Leonardo da Vinci sold for a much better than expected 1. La Belle Ferronniere â” real painter unknown â” went under the hammer at Sothebyâs in New York for 1. The painting was listed as by "a follower" of the Italian genius. The oil painting, depicting a richly dressed woman looking out over her left side, was wrongly identified in 1929, provoking a scandalous art world court case. In 1993 a da Vinci specialist ruled that the painting was executed in the mid-17th century â” more than a century after da Vinci died.

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