£5m surprise as lost Jean-Antoine Watteau masterpiece reappears

An 18th-century masterpiece long presumed to have been destroyed has been found languishing in the corner of an English country house.

The whereabouts of La Surprise, by the French artist Jean-Antoine Watteau, has been a mystery for almost 200 years. Its existence was ...

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