The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, has acquired Bartolomeo Manfredi's (1582–1622) The Capture of Christ, cc. 1613-18, a masterpiece by the Baroque artist, thought lost until the early 2000s.
The painting takes inspiration from Caravaggio's The Taking of Christ (today in the National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin), and has an illustrious provenance; once belonging to the Duke of Hamilton in the 17th century, it then passed into the collections of Archduke Leopold Wilhelm in 1649, and then subsequently down to Emperor Charles VI by 1735. Documented in an engraving by Pieter van Leysebetten, (c. 1660) for the Theatrum Pictorium by David Teniers the Younger (Brussels, 1660), the picture was considered lost until it surfaced on the art market in early 2000s.