A long-lost painting by Baroque master Peter Paul Rubens has sold for $2.7 million at an auction Sunday.

Guests and members of the media listen to a presentation on "Judith and Holofernes" by Caravaggio during a press event on Feb. 28, 2019, in London. (CNN) - A Caravaggio painting found in a French attic and estimated to be worth up to 150 million ($170 million) has been sold to a mystery foreign buyer, just two days before it was due to be auctioned. The work, which was discovered in the city of Toulouse in 2014 by a man who was clearing his loft, had been identified by art expert Eric Turquin as a lost work of Italian master Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, better known simply as Caravaggio. The subject of the painting, "Judith and Holofernes," illustrates a grisly passage from the Old Testament's Book of Judith, and shows the eponymous young widow beheading the Assyrian general Holofernes after seducing him in his tent. "We received an offer that could not be ignored and which we communicated to the owners of the painting.