1627

Lot 26. A bust-length portrait of the Emperor Jahangir, signed by Daulat, Mughal, dated 1627; 7.5 by 5.7cm. Estimate 30,000 — 40,000 GBP. Lot sold 60,000 GBP. Photo Sotheby's gouache heightened with gold on paper, ruled in red, blue and white, inscribed, signed and dated in nasta’liq script 'amal-i kamtarin bandah-i dargah Daulat’ ('the work of the most insignificant servant of the court, Daulat'), [regnal] 'year 22', in a khatamkari frame.  Provenance:... [Lire la suite]

Lot 21. Pieter Brueghel the Younger, St. George's kermis with the dance around the maypole, signed and dated lower left: P BREVGHEL.1627, oil on panel, 21 1/2  by 29 7/8  in.; 54.6 by 75.7 cm. Estimate $2,000,000 - $3,000,000. Courtesy Sotheby's. Provenance: Probably F.B. Greenstreet, London; Acquired by an American private collector  circa 1940, and thence by inheritance to the previous owner; Anonymous sale ("Property of an American Collector"), New... [Lire la suite]

Diego Velázquez, Portrait of King Philip III (detail), 1627. Courtesy Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid. MADRID.- The first donation received by American Friends of the Prado Museum, on this occasion made by the art historian William B. Jordan, has entered the Museo del Prado as a long-term deposit. This is a previously unpublished Portrait of Philip III, which exhaustive research and technical analysis have confirmed to be an autograph painting by Velázquez. It is being exhibited at the Prado as a temporary,... [Lire la suite]

Abel Grimmer, (ca. 1570 Antwerp 1620), Five Allegories of the months of February, March, April, October and December . Oil on panel. Diameter of each 25 cm. Estimate CHF 500 000 / 700 000. Photo Koller. ZURICH.- Museum-quality artworks will come to auction during the September sales at Koller Zurich. A rare Renaissance panel depicting Venus and Cupid by Paolo Schiavo was formerly in the collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum, and later was shown in the exhibition “Art and Love in Renaissance Italy” at the... [Lire la suite]

Plakat zur Ausstellung. Konzept und Fotografie: Crafft Kommunikation AG, Dan Cermak; Model: Suy Ky Lim, Mitarbeiterin Museum Rietberg; Styling: Philipp Junker, Style-Council; Make-up: Lena Fleischer, Style-Council; Dank an Urs Bergmann und Fidelio Zürich ZURICH.- L’exposition Jardins du monde est la première tentative de présenter globalement les jardins de l’Orient et de l’Occident dans une seule et même exposition. Le Musée Rietberg de Zurich vous invite à une promenade à travers les jardins, du... [Lire la suite]

Dirck Hals, The outdoor party, 1627, oil on panel, h 77,6cm × b 135,7cm, signature and date, center left, "D NECK 1627'. Acquisition May 1899. SK-A-1796. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. A 17th century public will certainly have great pleasure experienced at this joyful spectacle.At the same time have been aware of the message will lies in the fact that there is more to this world than to eat, drink and celebrate. A telling detail is the monkey on a chain: it stands for sinful man, who willingly let... [Lire la suite]

Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665): The Holy Family with Saints Anne, Elizabeth and John, called The Virgin with ten figures, 1649, National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, Photo © National Gallery of Ireland HAMBURG.- In the seventeenth century, French painting began to set the standards for all of Europe. Values in France during the Enlightenment began to shift toward a bourgeois society where painters were exposed to new themes and new artistic experiments. The French Revolution, the prototype of all struggles for liberation, marked a... [Lire la suite]

Sebastien Stoskopff (Strasbourg 1597 - Idstein 1657), Vanitas with a vase of theriac. Oil on panel, 48 x 65 cm. Signed and dated 1627. Photo courtesy David Koetser Gallery This painting is a true masterpiece of the Vanitas genre. Against a dark background, and on a stone table, a skull without lower jaw seems to bite the book it is resting on. To the right is a flask containing a juice or a liquor made of lemon labelled in Latin “Succucz limonum” and dated 1627, along with a travelling vanity set. To the left,... [Lire la suite]

Grande timbale en vermeil, Hongrie, 1627, Maitre-Orfèvre ZG Sur pied bâte, le corps évasé à décor gravé à l'imitation de la laine de mouton et d'une armoirie dans une couronne de laurier portant l'inscription FRUSINA 1627 DEBRECENI sous le chiffre XI, poinçon sur le fond. Hauteur: 17,3 cm. (6¾ in.). 562 gr. (19.45 oz.). Estimate €10,000 - €15,000 Ce terme englobe un vaste nombre de formes allant de la timbale à la coupe sur pied en passant par la chope. L'Allemagne étant un pays producteur de bière, c'est la chope qui est... [Lire la suite]

Roelant-Jacobsz Savery, (Courtrai 1576 - 1639 Utrecht). Paradisiacal landscape with animals and Saint Hubertus. 1627. Oil on panel. Signed and dated lower right: ROELANDT / SAVERÿ.FE / 1627. 38 x 54.6 cm. Estimation : 200 000 / 300 000 CHFProvenance: - Private collection , Paris.- Piasa auction, Paris, 24. June 1998, Lot 5.- European collection . Vente du Vendredi 19 septembre 2008. Tableaux de Maîtres Anciens. Koller - CH-8031 Zurich. Tel: + 41/44/445 63 63