Sotheby’s has filed a lawsuit against collector Lionel de Saint Donat-Pourrières, after a painting attributed to Parmigianino and commissioned for sale with the auction house was revealed as a likely forgery. The collector was asked to send the painting for additional testing before selling, but later tests revealed samples of a pigment not used for centuries after the work’s completion. “Each and every one of those samples (none of which were taken from areas of restoration) contained the modern synthetic pigment phthalocyanine green, which was first used in paints nearly four centuries after Parmigianino died,” the auction house said in its filing.
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