A stolen Titian painting that was discovered at a London bus stop is going up for auction at Christie’s. The Rest on the Flight into Egypt was painted in around 1510 and depicts the Virgin Mary cradling the baby Jesus. It was first looted in 1809 from the Belvedere Palace in Vienna by Napoleon’s troops, and then again in 1995 when it was pinched from Longleat House in Wiltshire. The effort to track the masterpiece down proved fruitless until 2002, when it was found in a plastic shopping bag at a bus stop in Richmond, southwest London. It’s expected to fetch about £25m.
