Old Master & British Drawings offers a wide variety of works on paper covering over five hundred years of design and European creativity from around 1480 to the mid-19th Century. Featured collections include properties from Jean Bonna, Terry Allen Kramer, James and Marilynn Alsdorf, Luisa Vertova Nicolson, Brooke Astor, Michael Hall and Eric Stanley. Amongst the highlights from the Italian section are masterpieces of the High Renaissance by Perugino, Luca Signorelli, Parmigianino, and exceptional Baroque drawings by Annibale Carracci, Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Elisabetta Sirani. Two great Venetian artists are featured with two top lots: Giovanni Battista Tiepolo’s rare Study for three donkeys from the collection of the late Brooke Astor, and Canaletto’s exceptionally large View of Warwick Castle. A group of drawings from the Collections of Michael Hall attests the enduring legacy of Rembrandt as a draftsman, while Boucher and Tiepolo are the highlights of the Chicago-based Alsdorf Collection. Masterwork by Ingres, Géricault and Bouguereau are the highlights of the French section, while the sale concludes with four exceptional watercolors by Turner, covering the entire arch of the great British artist’s career. A very substantial sale of 129 lots, the auction presents an opportunity to acquire some of the most celebrated and dramatic images of western art, with estimates ranging from $2,000 to $800,000.
Sale highlights
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Parmigianino,
Daniel in the lions' den (detail). Red chalk, 3 ½ x 5 7/8 in. (9 x
15 cm). Estimate: $60,000-80,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2019.
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Florentine school, 15th Century Head of a veiled womanEstimate USD 15,000 - USD 20,000Lot 7 -
Pietro di Cristoforo Vannucci, called Perugino (Città della Pieve ca. 1450-1523 Fontignano) Head of a bearded manEstimate USD 200,000 - USD 300,000Lot 12 -
Luca Signorelli (Cortona ca. 1450-1523) A young man seen from behind, cloaked, with a study of a young woman resting on her handEstimate USD 50,000 - USD 70,000Lot 16 -
Girolamo Francesco Mazzola, il Parmigianino (Parma 1503-1540 Casalmaggiore) Daniel in the lions' denEstimate USD 60,000 - USD 80,000Lot 20 -
Annibale Carracci (Bologna 1560-1609 Rome) Head of a young man wearing a hat, in profile to the leftEstimate USD 30,000 - USD 50,000Lot 26 -
Gian Lorenzo Bernini (Naples 1598-1680 Rome) Design for a funerary medallion with Death standing by a sarcophagusEstimate USD 60,000 - USD 80,000Lot 32 -
Hendrick Barentsz. Avercamp (Amsterdam 1585-1634 Kampen) A landscape with a frozen river and figures drawing sledsEstimate USD 150,000 - USD 250,000Lot 54 -
Jacob de Wit (Amsterdam 1695-1754) Allegory of AutumnEstimate USD 18,000 - USD 25,000Lot 66 -
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (Venice 1696-1770 Madrid) Three studies of a donkeyEstimate USD 250,000 - USD 350,000Lot 70 -
Giovanni Antonio Canal, Il Canaletto (Venice 1697-1768) View of the South front of Warwick CastleEstimate USD 800,000 - USD 1,200,000Lot 75 -
François Boucher (Paris 1703-1770) A nude woman playing a flute, seen from behindEstimate USD 20,000 - USD 30,000Lot 76
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Baron François-Pascal-Simon Gérard, called Baron Gérard (Rome 1770-1837 Paris) The Death of MalvinaEstimate USD 30,000 - USD 40,000Lot 94 -
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (Montauban 1780-1867 Paris) Portrait of Princess Louise MuratEstimate USD 100,000 - USD 150,000Lot 97 -
Jean-Louis-André-Théodore Géricault (Rouen 1791-1824 Paris) The coal wagon (recto); Study of a horse, with a second study of a horse (verso)Estimate USD 200,000 - USD 300,000Lot 102 -
Joseph Mallord William Turner, R.A. (London 1775-1851) Mont Blanc from the Bridge of St Martin, SallanchesEstimate USD 200,000 - USD 300,000Lot 126 -
Joseph Mallord William Turner, R.A. (London 1775-1851) Launceston, CornwallEstimate USD 400,000 - USD 600,000Lot 127 -
Joseph Mallord William Turner, R.A. (London 1775-1851) Mont-Blanc and the Allée Blanche from near the Col de la Seigne, FranceEstimate USD 400,000 - USD 600,000Lot 128 -
Joseph Mallord William Turner, R.A. (London 1775-1851) The Domleschg Valley looking North, SwitzerlandEstimate USD 300,000 - USD 500,000
