05 janvier 2020
Jean-Étienne Liotard, Portrait of Francis Owen, three-quarter-length, in seventeenth-century Van Dyck costume
Lot 58. Jean-Étienne Liotard (Geneva 1702 - 1789), Portrait of Francis Owen, three-quarter-length, in seventeenth-century Van Dyck costume, signed and dated on the plinth, center right: J.E. LIOTARD/1773, oil on unlined canvas, 50 by 40 in.; 127 by 101.6 cm. Estimate: 400,000 - 600,000 USD. © Sotheby's.
Provenance: Francis Owen (1745–1774), the sitter;
By descent to Margaret Owen, the sitter's sister;
By descent to her daughter Mary Jane Ormsby;
By descent to her son John Ralph Ormsby-Gore;
By descent in... [Lire la suite]05 janvier 2020
Henri-Pierre Danloux (Paris 1753 - 1809), Portrait of Lum A'Kao
Lot 57. Henri-Pierre Danloux (Paris 1753 - 1809), Portrait of Lum A'Kao, inscribed upper left in Chinese script: 番山林亞九, oil on canvas, 35¼ by 28 in.; 92 by 71 cm Estimate: 400,000 - 600,000 USD. © Sotheby's.
Provenance: Collection of the artist and by descent to his son, in whose possession still in 1860;
Anonymous sale (‘Mme X’), Paris, Galerie Charpentier, 31 March 1938, reproduced;
Baronne Cassel van Doorn;
Her sale, Paris, Galerie Charpentier, 30 May 1956, lot 29;
Hubert de Givenchy... [Lire la suite]05 janvier 2020
Pietro Paolini (Lucca 1603 - 1681), A portrait of a man writing by candlelight
Lot 34. Pietro Paolini (Lucca 1603 - 1681), A portrait of a man writing by candlelight, oil on canvas, 58⅛ by 45⅝ in.; 147.6 by 115.9 cm. Estimate: 400,000 - 600,000 USD. © Sotheby's.
Provenance: Private collection, Lucca.
Literature: P.G. Maccari, Pietro Paolini pittore luccese, Lucca 1987, p. 120, under cat. no. 37 (as a copy or a replica).
This masterpiece by Pietro Paolini, also known as il Lucchese, dates to the 1630s. Within a dimmed and quiet interior appears a... [Lire la suite]05 janvier 2020
Orazio Borgianni (Rome 1574 - 1616), Self portrait as a painter with palette and canvas
Lot 17. Orazio Borgianni (Rome 1574 - 1616), Self portrait as a painter with palette and canvas, inscribed right on edge of canvas: QVO MAGIS RIMOR. MAGIS MIROR, oil on canvas, 28 by 19¾ in.; 71 by 50 cm. Estimate: 400,000 - 600,000 USD. © Sotheby's.
Provenance: Art market, Berlin, 1960s;
Private collection, Berlin, until recently.
Literature: H. Voss, "Inediti di Orazio Borgianni, in Antichità Viva, vol. 2, 1962, pp. 9-10, reproduced p. 9, figs. 1 and 2;
H.E. Wethey,... [Lire la suite]05 janvier 2020
Frans Hals (Antwerp 1582/83 - 1666 Haarlem), Portrait of a boy of the Van Campen family
Lot 31. Frans Hals (Antwerp 1582/83 - 1666 Haarlem), Portrait of a boy of the Van Campen family, oil on canvas, a fragment, 21¼ by 18⅝ in.; 54 by 47.4 cm. Estimate: 200,000 - 300,000 USD. © Sotheby's.
Provenance: Commissioned by Gijsbert Claesz van Campen and Maria Jorisdr, Haarlem, circa 1620-25;
Thence by descent to Cornelis Gijsbertsz van Campen, Haarlem;
Thence by descent to Zacharias Jurriaensz van Eeckhout and Agnes van Campen, Haarlem, before 1733 (listed in the 29 September... [Lire la suite]05 janvier 2020
Asian Art Museum presents historic Vietnamese art recovered from shipwrecks
Architectural element with a multiheaded mythical serpent, approx. 1150–1250. Vietnam; Binh Dinh province, former kingdoms of Champa. Stone. Asian Art Museum, Gift of Richard Beleson in honor of Hanni Forester , 2012.103. Photograph © Asian Art Museum..
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- A fierce three-headed serpent and a mysterious female deity were among the nearly two dozen 12th-century stone sculptures from Central Vietnam that lay unseen at the bottom of the Arabian Sea for nearly 120 years. Almost 5,000 miles away in the South China... [Lire la suite]