Christie's Old Master & British Drawings New York 28 January

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



Francois Boucher, A nude woman playing a flute, seen from behind. Black, red and white chalk with pastel on blue paper, 9 1/2 x 14 in. (24 x 36 cm) Estimate: $20,000-30,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2019.

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.

Florentine school, 15th CenturyHead of a veiled woman
Estimate USD 15,000 - USD 20,000
Lot 7
Pietro di Cristoforo Vannucci, called Perugino (Città della Pieve ca. 1450-1523 Fontignano)Head of a bearded man
Estimate USD 200,000 - USD 300,000
Lot 12
Luca Signorelli (Cortona ca. 1450-1523)A young man seen from behind, cloaked, with a study of a young woman resting on her hand
Estimate USD 50,000 - USD 70,000
Lot 16
Girolamo Francesco Mazzola, il Parmigianino (Parma 1503-1540 Casalmaggiore)Daniel in the lions' den
Estimate USD 60,000 - USD 80,000
Lot 20
Annibale Carracci (Bologna 1560-1609 Rome)Head of a young man wearing a hat, in profile to the left
Estimate USD 30,000 - USD 50,000
Lot 26
Gian Lorenzo Bernini (Naples 1598-1680 Rome)Design for a funerary medallion with Death standing by a sarcophagus
Estimate USD 60,000 - USD 80,000
Lot 32
Hendrick Barentsz. Avercamp (Amsterdam 1585-1634 Kampen)A landscape with a frozen river and figures drawing sleds
Estimate USD 150,000 - USD 250,000
Lot 54
Jacob de Wit (Amsterdam 1695-1754)Allegory of Autumn
Estimate USD 18,000 - USD 25,000
Lot 66
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (Venice 1696-1770 Madrid)Three studies of a donkey
Estimate USD 250,000 - USD 350,000
Lot 70
Giovanni Antonio Canal, Il Canaletto (Venice 1697-1768)View of the South front of Warwick Castle
Estimate USD 800,000 - USD 1,200,000
Lot 75
François Boucher (Paris 1703-1770)A nude woman playing a flute, seen from behind
Estimate USD 20,000 - USD 30,000
Lot 76
Baron François-Pascal-Simon Gérard, called Baron Gérard (Rome 1770-1837 Paris)The Death of Malvina
Estimate USD 30,000 - USD 40,000
Lot 94
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (Montauban 1780-1867 Paris)Portrait of Princess Louise Murat
Estimate USD 100,000 - USD 150,000
Lot 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 300,000
Lot 102
Joseph Mallord William Turner, R.A. (London 1775-1851)Mont Blanc from the Bridge of St Martin, Sallanches
Estimate USD 200,000 - USD 300,000
Lot 126
Joseph Mallord William Turner, R.A. (London 1775-1851)Launceston, Cornwall
Estimate USD 400,000 - USD 600,000
Lot 127
Joseph Mallord William Turner, R.A. (London 1775-1851)Mont-Blanc and the Allée Blanche from near the Col de la Seigne, France
Estimate USD 400,000 - USD 600,000
Lot 128
Joseph Mallord William Turner, R.A. (London 1775-1851)The Domleschg Valley looking North, Switzerland
Estimate USD 300,000 - USD 500,000