Art du XVIème siècle/16th century Art

Les musées de Langres vous proposent de découvrir au musée d’Art et d’Histoire une grande exposition consacrée à la Renaissance, période faste de l’histoire de la cité. Présentant 175 œuvres, cette exposition inédite est le fruit de quatre années de recherches. Langres à la Renaissance offre un large panorama de la production artistique langroise au XVIe siècle : éléments d’architecture, sculptures, peintures, vitraux, tapisserie, orfèvrerie, coutellerie, boiserie, estampes, livres enluminés, mais aussi imprimerie, théâtre, musique... [Lire la suite]

Luis de Morales (Badajoz, circa 1510/1511 - Alcántara, 1586), Pietà, circa 1570-1580. Oil on walnut, 58.4 x 46.2 cm (23 x 18.2 in.). Image courtesy Mullany, Stand 373 at TEFAF New York Fall 2018. Provenance: Private collection, Portugal, since circa 1870; Thence by descent. Retable Panel with Saint George and the Dragon, Spain, first quarter 16th century. Walnut, with original polychrome and gilding, 134 x 57 cm (52.8 x 22.4 in.). Image courtesy Mullany, Stand 373 at TEFAF New... [Lire la suite]

Lot 3015. Hieronymus Bosch (Follower circa 1550), A nocturnal landscape with the temptation of Saint Anthony. Oil on panel. With owl on the helmet on the right as a signature, 45 x 57 cm. Estimate:  CHF 180 000 / 250 000 (€ 150 000 / 208 330). © Koller. Provenance: - Palais des Congrès auction (Martin), Versailles, 20.5.1979, Lot 29 (attributed to Pieter Brueghel the Younger). - Hotel Drouot auction (Blanchet, Joron-Derem and Daguerre), Paris, 21.3.2001, Lot 17.- Galerie Gilbert... [Lire la suite]

Jacopo Tintoretto (1519 - Venice - 1594), Portrait of the Cardinal Marcantonio Da Mula, circa 1562-63. Oil on canvas, 187 x 103 cm (73.6 x 40.6 in. Image courtesy Rob Smeets Gallery / Stand 209. Rob Smeets Old Master Paintings, one of the principal international galleries in the field, was originally established in Milan (1989). The gallery specializes in Dutch, Flemish and Italian old masters, and it places particular emphasis on fifteenth- and sixteenth-century artists. Over the past twenty-five years, Rob Smeets... [Lire la suite]

Michel Sittow, Mary Rose Tudor (1496–1533), Sister of Henry VIII of England, c. 1514, oil on panelKunsthistorisches Museum Vienna, Gemäldegalerie, KHM—Museumsverband. TALLINN.- The Art Museum of Estonia, in collaboration with the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC, is organising a large-scale exhibition on Michel Sittow (ca 1469–1525), a painter from Estonia who became a sought-after and highly renowned artist in the royal courts of Europe at the turn of the 15th and 16th centuries. The acclaimed master had been... [Lire la suite]

Lot 124. Lombard School, circa 1520 - 1530, Portrait of a Bearded Man with a Sword, oil on canvas, 29 by 24 1/2 in.; 73.7 by 62.2 cm. Estimate 100,000—200,000 USD. Lot Sold 146,500 USD. Photo: Sotheby's Provenance: Hugh Morrison, Fonthill House, Tisbury, Wiltshire;And thence by descent to The Rt. Hon. Lord Margadale of Islay, T.D., Fonthill House, Tisbury, Wiltshire; His sale, London, Christie's, 2 July 1965, lot 55 (as by Giulio Campi);Where purchased by Heinemann, on behalf of Baron Hans Heinrich... [Lire la suite]

Lot 112. Gabriele Cappellini, called Calzolaretto (Active in Ferrara in the seond and third decades of the 16th century), Portrait Of Laura Pisani, inscribed and dated on the paper sheet on the table:  LAV. PISI. / ANNOR / XX / MDXXV (1525), oil on canvas, 37 1/4 by 31 1/4 in.; 94.6 by 79.4 cm. Estimate 150,000 — 200,000 USD. Lot sold 170,500 USD. Photo: Sotheby's. Provenance: Vernon James Watney, Cornbury Park, Oxfordshire, England, by 1907;Thence by inheritance... [Lire la suite]

Lot 1. The Master of the Female Half-Lengths (Active in Antwept during the first half of the 16th century), A lady writing at a desk, oil on panel, 38.5 by 25.1 cm.; 15 1/8  by 9 7/8  in. Estimate 100,000 — 150,000 GBP. Lot sold 218,500 GBP. Photo: Sotheby's. Provenance: In the collection of the present owner's family for at least two hundred years. Note: The engaging subject is entirely typical of this unknown master, who seems to have specialised in small-scale panels... [Lire la suite]

Lot 116. The Master of the Female Half-lengths (Active in Antwept during the first half of the 16th century), The Magdalen, oil on panel, 15 3/4 by 10 1/2 in.; 40.3 by 26.7 cm. Estimate 180,000 — 220,000 USD. Lot sold 218,500 USD. Photo: Sotheby's. Provenance: Baron Alphonse de Rothschild (1827 - 1905), Paris; Baron Edouard de Rothschild (1868 - 1949), Paris; Confiscated by the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg, Paris (inventory R96);Hermann Göring (acquired February 8, 1941 as Quintin... [Lire la suite]

Sir Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish 1577 - 1640), Portrait of a Gentleman. Oil on oak panel 54 by 39,3cm. JOHANNESBURG.- This exquisite portrait by the most influential Flemish Baroque artist Sir Peter Paul Rubens (1577 – 1640) depicts a gentleman in a crisp white ruff and black coat, with intricate black on black weaving on the shoulder and chest of the coat. The face of the sitter stands out against the muted greens on the background, the play of light and shade drawing one into the portrait. The technique is elegant and the face... [Lire la suite]