Old Masters

Featuring paintings by some of the greatest European artists working from the late 15th to the early 19th centuries, the auction includes many fresh to market works from private collections. Among the highlights are Vigée Le Brun’s Portrait of the Artist, bust-length, Greuze’s La Rêveuse (The Dreamer), van Delen’s An architectural capriccio with figures promenading and boys arguing over a game of skittles, and Constable’s Study of clouds over a landscape. The sale offers exciting rediscoveries like Bouts’s powerful The head of Saint John the Baptist on a charger and a strong selection of Dutch and Flemish still lifes by Daniel Seghers, Hubert van Ravesteyn, Cornelis de Heem, and Edwaert Collier.