Christies London

5 July 2018 Old Masters Evening Sale


Works in the auction

1
Pieter Brueghel the Younger
A Drunkard pushed into a Pigsty

2
Joos de Momper II
An extensive mountainous landscape with travellers

4
Jacob van Ruisdael
A Water Mill

5
Jan Steen
Prayer before a Meal

6
Otto van Veen
The Capture of Rome


8
Lucas van Valckenborch
A wooded, river landscape with an angler

9
Hendrik van Balen
The Preaching of Saint John the Baptist

11
Pieter Brueghel the Younger
Peasants brawling

13
Lucas Cranach the Elder
The Mocking of Christ

16
Dutch School
Esau selling his birthright to Jacob


18
Balthasar van der Ast
A Semper Augustus tulip, a carnation and roses, with shells and insects, on a ledge

19
Jan Davidsz. de Heem
A tulip, roses, apple blossoms, cornflowers and other flowers in a glass vase on a stone ledge, with a pipe, taper, oysters and an orange, with a butterfly

20
Salomon van Ruysdael
An estuary with a ferry and other vessels, a church and windmill beyond

21
Jacob van Ruisdael
An extensive landscape with grain fields, Heemstede beyond

23
Herman Posthumus
Extensive mountainous, coastal landscape


27
Jacopo di Cione
Madonna and Child with Angels

30
Attributed to Bastiano Mainardi
The Madonna and Child with the Infant Saint John the Baptist

34
Giovanni Francesco Bezzi
The Holy Family with Saints John the Baptist and Jerome

35
Carlo Saraceni
The Adoration of the Shepherds

36
Ludovico Carracci
Portrait of Carlo Alberto Rati Opizzoni in armour


37
Sebastiano Ricci
A Nymph and a Satyr

38
Guido Cagnacci
Allegory of human life

39
Carlo Dolci
Saint Agatha

42
Titian
The Penitent Magdalen

43
Bernardo Bellotto
The Grand Canal, Venice, looking North from the Palazzo Contarini dagli Scrigni to the Palazzo Rezzonico


44
William Dobson
Portrait of a gentleman, traditionally identified as Lucius Cary, 2nd Viscount Falkland (c. 1610-1643), half-length, in black

46
English School
King Charles II being presented with a pineapple by the Royal Gardener, John Rose, in the formal gardens of an estate

48
Pieter Lely
Portrait of Lady Mary Fane, later Countess of Exeter (1639-1681)

52
Claude Joseph Vernet
A harbour at sunrise

54
Elisabeth-Louise Vigee-Lebrun
Portrait of La maréchale-comtesse de Mailly, née Blanche Charlotte Marie Félicité de Narbonne Pelet (1761-1840)


55
Pompeo Batoni
Group portrait of the Hon. Arthur Saunders Gore, Viscount Sudley, with his wife and their son as Cupid

57
Joshua Reynolds
Portrait of the Hon. John Tufton (1773-1799)

59
Thomas Lawrence
Head study of a lady

60
John Constable
Dedham from Langham