Christie's New York

31 October 2017 Old Masters


Works in the auction

1
Flemish School
An allegory of gluttony

2
Antwerp School
The magus Balthazar

5
Marten van Cleve
The Demolition of the Citadel of Antwerp

7
16th-Century Follower of Quentin Metsys
The Tax Collectors

8
Albrecht Bouts
The head of Saint John the Baptist on a charger


9
Circle of David Vinckboons
A winter landscape with a horse-drawn sledge and figures skating and sledding

10
Cornelis de Heem
Peaches, grapes, medlars, walnuts, a hazelnut, cherries, and black raspberries with a snail, a façon de venise glass of wine, and a flute glass on a stone ledge before a niche

11
Dirck van Delen
An architectural capriccio with figures promenading and boys arguing over a game of skittles

12
Hubert van Ravesteyn
Walnuts in a wan-li porcelain bowl, an orange, a stoneware jug, a knife, and a roemer filled with wine on a partially draped marble table

15
Pieter Neefs II and attributed to Gillis van Tilborgh
Portrait of an elegantly dressed couple and a page in a picture gallery


16
Gerard Dou
Dentist Pulling Out a Girl's Tooth

17
Daniel Seghers
Roses, tulips, and narcissi in a glass vase, with a butterfly, on a ledge

18
Hendrick ter Brugghen and Studio
A man playing a lute

24
Studio of Giovanni Bellini
The Holy Family

27
Giovanni Battista Gaulli
Portrait of Pope Clement X (1590-1676)


29
Deifobo Burbarini
Juno placing the eyes of Argus on the tail of a peacock

30
Jean-Baptiste Greuze
La Rêveuse (The Dreamer)

31
Anne Vallayer-Coster
Bouquet of flowers in a gilt-bronze mounted vase

32
Elisabeth-Louise Vigée Le Brun
Portrait of the artist, bust-length

33
Nicolas Lancret
'Que le coeur d'un amant est sujet à changer' ('That the Heart of a Lover is Subject to Change')


34
Jean-Marc Nattier
Portrait of Fernando de Silva y Alvarez of Toledo, 12th Duke of Alba and Duke of Huescar (1714-1776)

35
Hubert Drouais
Portrait of a man, half-length

36
Joseph-Siffred Duplessis
Portrait of the Architect Louis-François Petit Radel (1740-1818)

37
François-Marius Granet
Digne from Saint-Lazare

38
Daniël de Koninck
A bearded old man reading, wearing a brown coat and a golden chain, half-length


40
Studio of Diego Velázquez
Portrait of the Infante Baltasar Carlos (1629-1646)

42
Pieter Codde
An elegant company making music

45
Allan Ramsay
Portrait of Valentine Morris (1727-1789), Governor of Saint Vincent

46
Joshua Reynolds
Portrait of General William John Kerr, 5th Marquess of Lothian (1737-1815), styled Lord Newbottle and later Earl of Ancram

49
Thomas Hudson
Portrait of Penelope Bayfield of Dedham Grove, Essex, three-quarter-length


51
Louis Gauffier
Portrait of Elizabeth, Lady Webster, later Lady Holland (1771-1845)

52
Francesco Guardi
The Island of Lazzaretto Vecchio, Venice

53
John Constable
Study of clouds over a landscape

54
Circle of Jan Breughel the Elder
Orpheus Charming the Animals

55
German School
Saint Francis's Renunciation of Wordly Goods


56
South Netherlandish School
Saint Luke painting the Virgin and Child

57
Circle of Thomas de Keyser
Portrait of a girl, three-quarter-length, with a book and a fan

58
Cornelis Symonsz. van der Schalcke
A view of Egmond aan Zee, a horsedrawn carriage, a woman selling fish, and other figures along the beach

59
Flemish School
Head of a saint

60
Follower of Sir Peter Paul Rubens
A girl with a basket of fruit and a straw hat


61
Studio of Anthony van Dyck
Portrait of Anne, Lady Russell, later Countess Bedford (1615-1684)

62
Flemish School
The Virgin and Child

64
Gerard van Kuijl
Portrait of a woman, half-length, possibly Madame de Montrouge

65
Jan Jozef Horemans the Elder
An interior with a woman at her spinning wheel, a child with a rattle, and other figures

66
Studio of Paris Bordone
Venus and Cupid


69
Alessandro Rosi
An allegory of painting

71
Circle of Jusepe de Ribera
The penitent Saint Peter

72
Giuseppe Recco
Fish and oysters on a wooden table, a landscape beyond

73
Studio of Simon Vouet
The Virgin and Child of the Rose

74
Nicolas de Largillière
Portrait of a man, possibly Philippe II, duc d'Orleans (1674-1723)


77
French School
A theorbo and a kit violin with sheet music, shells, a candlestick, and coins on a green cloth, on a table

79
Circle of Jeanne-Elisabeth Chaudet
Study of a boy, possibly an allegory of the Republic

80
Henry Raeburn
Portrait of James Bruce of Bankton, Mid Calder (1753-1826), bust-length

82
Attributed to Godfrey Kneller
Portrait of a man in armor, bust-length

83
John Riley
Portrait of Sir William Monson, 4th Bt. (c. 1653-1727)