Old Masters

The Christie’s Old Masters sale offers paintings on a rich variety of themes and spanning six centuries of art history.

Highlights include new discoveries, such as the Saint Jerome by Sir Anthony van Dyck and a long-lost Neptune by Guercino. We have works by Hendrick Barentsz. Avercamp, Francesco Guardi, and George Romney from the Estate of Carlo Browning and Edmund Wattis Dumke. A group of Netherlandish paintings including a Virgin and Child with music-making angels, known as The Béthune Madonna by the workshop of Hans Memling,  panels by The Master of Frankfurt, and a genre scene by the Circle of Jan Sanders van Hemessen. The Italian Renaissance and Baroque is represented by The Madonna and Child with a Dog by Moretto da Brescia, a still-life by Panfilo Nuvolone, and Cupid and Psyche by Antonio Bellucci. A portrait by Sir Thomas Lawrence, a landscape by John Constable and paintings by George Stubbs are highlights amongst other eighteenth century English works. Other highlights include a panel by Joachim Wtewael, a Portrait of Margherita Gonzaga by Sir Peter Paul Rubens, and a still life by Isaak Soreau.

Explore the auction in person at our Rockefeller Center galleries from 18 May – 22 May.