In 1992 he discovered an important large painting of The Rape of Europe by Michel DeSubleay (French, 1602-1668), named in Italian Michele DeSubleo, the head of the studio of Guido Reni in Bologna and half brother to Nicolas Regnier (or Niccolo Renieri), working later in Venice and Parma. The work is now in a private collection in Italy and is fully illustrated in color and described in the lavish catalogue raisonne by Dr. Alberto Cottino (2001) on this very interesting artist (color illustration XXXI and page 123, number 57).

In 1998 Gui Rochat sold a pair of very beautiful red chalk drawings by Francois Boucher (French, 1703-1770) to the eminent Musee Fesch, the palace and famous collection of Cardinal Fesch, the uncle of Napoleon, in Ajaccio on Corsica. It was not known where these important drawings were as described and illustrated by Dr. Beverly Schreiber Jacoby, advised by Pierre Rosenberg the director of the Louvre in Paris, in her thesis on early drawings by Boucher (page247, cat. Numbers II B 3 and II B 4). They are inspired by a famous painting by the Italian artist Francesco Solimena: La Partenza di Rebecca, now in the Fesch museum but previously in the Baglioni collection in Venice where Boucher must have seen it circa 1730 on a visit till now not known to scholars. The acquisition of these delicate drawings by the Musee Fesch has been published with color illustrations in the Revue du Louvre et des Musees de France, December 2000, page 82, numbers 18 and 19, and they were published by Dr. Beverly Schreiber Jacoby in Master Drawings, vol. 39, #3, 2001. Both drawings were included in an important exhibition of Boucher's graphic work at the Louvre in Paris for the remembrance of the artist's 300th year date of birth: François Boucher, hier et aujourd'hui, catalogue by Françoise Joulie and Jean-François Méjanès, Musee du Louvre , 17 October 2003 till 19 January 2004, entries # 14 and # 15, pp.46-48, both illus. in color.

Among the more interesting recent discoveries in 2001 is a striking oil on paper portrait sketch of a young woman by the Flemish/French painter François-Joseph Navez (1787-1869). It is entirely in the Neoclassical style, but already moving towards Romanticism. Navez was a favorite pupil of Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825), which is clearly visible in the subtle glazes built over a ground of transparent scumbled paints as a very careful effort at a disciplined stylization and a refined technique (Lorenz Eitner). The full authentication comes from Dr. Denis Coekelberghs, author of Francois-Joseph Navez, la nostalgie de l'Italie, an exhibition catalogue from 1999/2000. Dr. Coekelberghs established that this vibrant portrait sketch is mentioned in Navez's own inventory of his works kept at the Royal Library in Brussels as Une étude d'après Mademoiselle Luisa, chez M. Portaels, 1824. It has been published by Dr. Coekelberghs in an article Schnetz? Gericault ? Navez tout simplement in the Gazette des Beaux-Arts, Paris, February 2002. It is now in the National Gallery of Scotland (cf. La Tribune de l'Art, www.latribunedelart.com., Nouvelles breves 25/5/04 – Acquisitions – Edimbourg, National Gallery of Scotland).

A major discovery for an important client, Dr. Alfred Bader was a quite large and very beautiful Lot and His Daughters (61 7/8 by 91 3/4 in, 167 by 233 cm) by the Dutch 17th century Utrecht artist Abraham Bloemaert, fully signed and dated 1624. This significant painting was offered at Sotheby's New York on January 22, 2004 as Attributed to Hendrick Bloemaert, the son of Abraham and a lesser painter, probably because the canvas was very dirty and the signature had been overpainted as P.P. Rubens. Nevertheless one could see here and there, in the head of the figure in the foreground and in the visible parts of the remarkable still life traces of a very high quality. The true signature and date reappeared soon after the first attempt at cleaning. Dr. Bader was so delighted by this wonderful discovery that he is publishing the story in his forthcoming second book on his life as a collector. The significance of this superb still life as a very early example of its kind and thus as proto-type for Utrecht Still Life painting cannot be overstated. The pathos of the scene and the portrait-like depictions of the protagonists are unusual also for Bloemaert. The canvas was inspected and admired in person by the Bloemaert expert Prof. Marcel Roethlisberger. The painting is at present again in a private collection.