German police have appealed for information from the public after two 17th century paintings were discovered in a skip at a highway rest stop.
Police said a 64-year-old man found the oil paintings at the rest stop near Ohrenbach in central Germany last month. He later handed them in to police in the western city of Cologne.
An initial assessment by an art expert concluded the two framed paintings were originals, police said.
One is a self-portrait by Pietro Bellotti (1625-1700) showing the Italian artist smiling and dating to 1665. The other is a portrait of a boy by the Dutch artist Samuel van Hoogstraten (1627-1678), date unknown.
Hoogstraten was a student of
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