Art du XVIème siècle/16th century Art

Lot 26. Workshop of Steven van der Meulen (Antwerp -circa 1564 London), Portrait of Queen Elizabeth I, three-quarter-length, wearing a black dress embroidered with gold, an ermine-trimmed surcoat, a white ruff trimmed with gold and a pearl-encrusted headdress, holding a red rose in her left hand and a gold chain in her right hand, which rests on an embroidered cushion, oil on panel, 96.6 x 74.2cm (38 1/16 x 29 3/16in). Estimate £ 150,000 - 250,000 (€ 170,000 - 290,000). Photo: Bonhams. LONDON.- The picture... [Lire la suite]

Alonso Sanchez Coello (1531-1588), Lady in a Fur Wrap, circa 1580-1588, oil on canvas, framed: 798 x 657 x 85 mm. Stirling Maxwell Collection, gifted, 1967, PC.18. © CGS CIC Glasgow Museums Collection. GLASGOW.- Leading international specialists in the field of art history have released the initial findings of a four year collaborative research project centring around one of Glasgow Museums’ most famous paintings, the Lady in a Fur Wrap.For over 100 years scholars have been debating who painted the... [Lire la suite]

Lot 121. Corneille de La Haye, dit Corneille de Lyon et atelier (La Haye, 1500 - Paris, 1575), Portait de Jacques de Savoie, duc de Nemours. Huile sur panneau de chêne, doublé et parqueté. Annoté postérieurement 'charles 9' à droite. Estimate 80 000 - 120 000 €. © Artcurial Provenance : Vente anonyme ; Paris, Palais Galliera, 16 mars 1967, n° 21 ;Galerie Heim, Paris, en 1973 ;Vente anonyme ; Monaco, Christie's, 4 décembre 1992, n° 33 ;Vente anonyme ; Paris, Hôtel Drouot,... [Lire la suite]

Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577-1640), A Sheet of Anatomical Studies, 1600-1610. Pen and brown ink on ivory laid paper, 271 × 188 mm. The Art Institute of Chicago, Regenstein Acquisition Fund. CHICAGO, IL.- The Art Institute of Chicago presents Rubens, Rembrandt, and Drawing in the Golden Age, on view from until January 5, 2020. This exhibition reflects a unique and comprehensive effort by the Art Institute to study and interpret its holdings of Dutch and Flemish drawings. The project is a... [Lire la suite]

Raphael, Tommaso Inghirami, c. 1510. Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston. BOSTON - Nearly five centuries after his death, Raphael’s fame remains undiminished. In 1898, Isabella Stewart Gardner brought the first Raphael to America, a portrait of the pope’s librarian Tommaso Inghirami. Celebrated by Erasmus as “the Cicero of our era,” Inghirami was a high Renaissance celebrity esteemed for his profound erudition, theatrical abilities, and powerful friends, including Raphael himself. Commemorating the 500th... [Lire la suite]

Lot 708. Jan de Beer (Antwerp c. 1475-1528 or earlier), The Annunciation, oil on panel, 26 ¾ x 20 5/8 in. (67.9 x 52.4 cm). Estimate USD 200,000 - USD 300,000. © Christie's Image Ltd 2019 Provenance: Private collection, Heidelberg, before 1823, when acquired byCount Caspar Heinrich von Siestorpff, Bad Driburg (1750-1842), and by descent to his sonCount Ernst von Sierstorpff, Bad Driburg (1813-1855), and by descent to his sonCount Bruno von Sierstorpff, Bad Driburg (1855-1870), and by inheritance to his... [Lire la suite]

Jan de Beer and assistant, ‘Adoration of the Magi’, c. 1515 © Private collection BIRMINGHAM.- Famous in his lifetime and for several generations after his death for his stylish and elegant paintings, Antwerp’s Jan de Beer (c. 1475 – 1527/28) created spectacular altarpieces that appealed to churches at home and abroad, copyists, patrons and collectors. However, his star subsequently waned, and by the end of the 19th century he was virtually unknown. This autumn’s major exhibition at the Barber Institute of Fine Arts,... [Lire la suite]

PARIS - À l’occasion des 500 ans de la mort de Léonard de Vinci en France, le musée du Louvre conçoit et organise une grande rétrospective consacrée à l’ensemble de sa carrière de peintre. L’exposition entend montrer combien Léonard a placé la peinture au-dessus de toute activité, et la manière dont son enquête sur le monde – il l’appelait « science de la peinture », fut l’instrument d’un art, dont l’ambition n’était autre que de donner la vie à ses tableaux. Autour de sa propre collection de 5 tableaux, la plus... [Lire la suite]

MADRID - The exhibition will reveal the artistic personality of two of the most outstanding women artists in western art. Through a total of 60 works and for the first time, the Museo del Prado will jointly present the most important paintings by Sofonisba Anguissola (ca.1535-1625) and Lavinia Fontana (1552-1614). The two artists achieved recognition and fame among their contemporaries for and despite their status as female painters. Both were able to break away from the prevailing stereotypes assigned to women in relation to... [Lire la suite]

PARIS - Cette rétrospective est la première grande exposition jamais consacrée en France à cet artiste. Né en 1541 en Crète, Doménikos Theotokópoulos, dit Greco, fait son premier apprentissage dans la tradition byzantine avant de parfaire sa formation à Venise puis à Rome. C’est cependant en Espagne que son art s’épanouit et s’implante durablement à partir de la décennie 1577. Attiré par les mirifiques promesses du chantier de l’Escorial, l’artiste importe dans la péninsule la couleur du Titien, les audaces du Tintoret et le style... [Lire la suite]