Bonhams London

8 December 2010 Old Master Paintings


Works in the auction

1
Gaspar van Wittel
A capriccio of two travellers in a coastal landscape

2
Theodore Gericault
A study for the principal group of the Raft of the Medusa (a male figure assisting another on to a barrel to make a signal to the Argus)

3
Jacopo Strada
Designs for two candlesticks and a covered salt cellar resting on turtles

4
Jacopo Strada
Designs for a salt cellar and egg dish with Leda and the Swan, with a fork and spoon

5
Jacopo Strada
Design for a triangular salt and egg dish


6
Jacopo Strada
Design for a footed bowl with Zeus with eagle and thunderbolt

7
Friedrich Brentel I
Christ in the House of Mary and Martha

8
Veneto-Cretan School
The Last Supper with a male donor

10
Flemish School
Two Philosophers discoursing

11
Studio of Anthony van Dyck
The Holy Family with an Angel


12
Pietro Dandini
The Mocking of Christ

15
Circle of Jacopo Palma il Giovane
An Allegory of River Gods

18
Workshop of Pieter Coecke van Aelst the Elder
The Deposition

20
Anton Faistenberger
An extensive landscape with falconers resting beside a country path in the foreground, a mountainous coast beyond

21
Frederick de Moucheron
Peasants on a track before an extensive landscape at sunset


23
Circle of Lorenzo Lotto
Portrait of a lady, bust-length

27
Follower of Hugo van der Goes
The Adoration of the Shepherds

30
Jan Anthonisz. van Ravesteyn
Portrait of a gentleman, bust-length

31
Attributed to Dirck Wijntrack
Decorative Fowl

32
Gaspare Traversi
Portrait of a lady, half-length


33
Francesco Solimena
Portrait of a gentleman, three-quarter-length

34
Vincenzo Chilone
The Palazzo Ducale and the Riva degli Schiavoni, Venice

36
Joost Cornelisz. Droochsloot
A skirmish in a village

37
Andries Vermeulen
A winter landscape with boys skating on a frozen river and a man walking his dog

39
George Henry Harlow
Portrait of John Windham Dalling, three-quarter-length, as a midshipman


41
French School
Saint Preux contemplating the tranquillity of Julie d'Etange's garden, from Jean-Jacques Rousseau's novel, La Nouvelle Héloïse

42
Attributed to Hugh Barron
Portrait of Dr. Samuel Johnson and his wife, Elizabeth, three-quarter-length

44
Francesco Trevisani
The Infant Christ

45
Studio of Pier Francesco Mazzucchelli
The Immaculate Conception

46
Isaac van Ostade
A winter landscape with figures skating and playing kolf on a frozen river


49
Joseph Heintz the Younger
A Venetian scene with figures on the Riva at Ascension Day

50
Gottfried von Wedig
Portrait of gentleman, half-length

51
Roelof van Vries
A wooded river landscape

52
Giovanni Battista Gaulli
Portrait of Cardinal Alfonso Litta

53
Circle of Mattheus Verheyden
Portrait of a young girl, full-length, in a white dress and red gown


55
Jan Brueghel the Younger
A village fire at night with numerous figures and vessels on a river

56
Attributed to Francis Wheatley
Mr Bannister and Miss Collins in a scene from The Adventurers

57
Lemuel Francis Abbott
Portrait of Bryan Edwards, half-length, in a brown coat, seated before a green curtain, a view to a Caribbean landscape beyond

58
Thomas Jones
A shepherd and shepherdesses grazing their herd before the Cascatelle at Tivoli

59
Attributed to Jan Pauwel Gillemans the Elder
A still life of grapes, a peeled lemon and apricots on a silver dish, a roemer of white wine, figs, oysters, blackberries and a bread roll with a snail on a stone ledge


60
Joris van Son
Apricots and grapes in a Wan-li kraak blue and white bowl on a table ledge

62
Attributed to Allan Ramsay
Portrait of an officer, possibly Major William Caulfeild, three-quarter-length, wearing a red overcoat, a cuirasse and a small sword

64
Studio of Erasmus Quellinus the Younger
Mercury escorting Psyche to the heavens for her marriage with Cupid

65
Jan Abrahamsz. Beerstraten
A winter landscape with figures skating and playing kolf on a frozen river at the edge of a town

66
Attributed to Jean-Baptiste De Saive
A fruit and vegetable seller and her suitor beside her stall with a townscape beyond


67
Jan Wyck
An Arab grey with a groom, a dog and other figures beyond in a Turkish landscape

68
Studio of Pieter Brueghel the Younger
The Kermesse of Saint George

69
Carlo Bonavia
A river landscape with figures resting on rocks before a waterfall

69
Carlo Bonavia
An Italianate landscape

70
Venetian School
A capriccio of Roman ruins with Christ healing the centurion


72
Pierre Antoine Demachy
The Louvre from the entrance to the Palais Royal

74
Attributed to Dirck van Delen
Soldiers encamping in a fortified city

75
Gillis van Tilborch
A guardroom interior

76
Abraham Bosschaert
A pink rose and a red and white carnation on a stone ledge with a bee, a butterfly, a dragonfly and a caterpillar

78
Attributed to François Hubert
Portrait of a lady, half-length


79
Hugues Taraval
A bacchante

81
School of Parma
The Flagellation

84
Leandro Bassano
An Allegory of Summer