Genius as a child: Mozart portrait to be auctioned in November

At Christie's auction in Paris will exhibit a portrait of Mozart, which depicts the composer at the age of 13 years. The auction will begin on November 27, it is expected that the cost will be from 800 thousand to 1.2 million euros. It is believed that the author of the portrait is Giambettino Cignaroli. As a rule, collectors pay attention to the name of the author, but in this case the interest arose because of the presented plot.

In addition, some experts have attracted sheets with the image of notes. On the content of the score there is no consensus: some believe that its author is Mozart himself, others tend to believe that it was created by Baldassarre Galuppi from Venice. The main value of the portrait is that such images of Mozart in childhood there are very few.