A rare portrait of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart aged 13 has fetched €4m at a Christie’s auction in Paris – far more than had been expected, the BBC reports.
It shows the Austrian musical prodigy playing a harpsichord during a tour of Italy in January 1770.
Christie’s says the composer and his father were staying in Verona with Pietro Lugiati, a top official in the Republic of Venice. An admirer of Mozart, he commissioned the painting.
It is attributed to a Veronese artist. Only five portraits of Mozart were painted from life.
