The Savvy Collector: Upcoming Old Master’s Deals at Auction

Thu Oct 10 2019

To help you diversify your portfolio in fine art related assets, we have selected the best investment deals from the upcoming old master’s sales offered by reputable auction houses in the month of October.

Here is a selection of beautiful Paintings with a very interesting quality/price ratio now available at auction:


Left: Follower of Joos van Cleve, Saint Jerome in his study; Right: Jan Brueghel the Younger, Dancing Putti in a Forest

Follower of Joos van Cleve, Saint Jerome in his study
Oil on oak panel, 49 x 67,5 cm
In this painting is depicted Saint Jerome in his study surrounded by objects symbolizing transience and death. The painting is a sensation, prefiguring the genre of memento mori, images that compelled contemplation of mortality. The Doctor of the Church is represented here by the powerful, concentrated and synthetic image of an old sage. His melancholy attitude and his gesture toward the skull suggest that the artist consciously emulated Albrecht Dürer’s influential Saint Jerome panel of 1521. For Sale at Arenberg Auctions, Belgium. See Sale Date & Price Estimate...
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Jan Brueghel the Younger, Dancing Putti in a Forest
oil on panel, 33 x 40,5 cm
Jan Brueghel the Younger belonged to the third generation of a famous dynasty of painters and he was well known for his mythological and allegorical scenes made with light tones and highly detailed. This charming and high-quality painting shows several putti dancing in a forest. Their chubby bodies are delicately painted, enhanced with touches of bright light and underlined with slightly rosy shades. The meticulous treatment of the vegetation associated with a sought-after palette mixing all the shades of green, yellow and ocher to create the foliage, branches and trunks of the forest provide a magnificent setting for the scene. For Sale at im Kinsky, Austria. See Sale Date & Price Estimate...
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Left: Marcantonio Franceschini, Venus and the three graces grieve the death of Adonis, Right: Karel van Mander, The meeting of David and Abigail

Marcantonio Franceschini, Venus and the three graces grieve the death of Adonis
oil on canvas, 98,5 x 139,5 cm
Marcantonio Franceschini was an Italian Baroque painter, active mostly in his native Bologna. He was the last important representative of the tradition of the Carracci. In particular, the works of Lodovico Carracci are the main sources of his style. His work was in considerable demand from foreign clients. His main foreign patron was Prince Adam John of Liechtenstein. In the present painting are depicted Venus and the three graces lamenting the death of Adonis, based on book 10 of Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Adonis lay dying from his wounds on a patch of yellow sand as Venus passed by in her chariot, on her way to Cyprus. She heard his groans of agony, stopped, and found him almost dead. For Sale at im Kinsky, Austria. See Sale Date & Price Estimate...
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Karel van Mander, The meeting of David and Abigail
oil on canvas, 60 × 127 cm
Known as the "Dutch Vasari", Karel van Mander was a Flemish painter, art historian and art theoretician. His Schilderboek, which first appeared in 1604, remains the main source for information on Northern European painters of the 1400s and 1500s and contains valuable original material about his Italian contemporaries. He was the first Western European author to mention Caravaggio's innovations and to write extensively about the recent genre of landscape painting. In this painting is depicted the biblical scene of the meeting of David and Abigail in a masterfully executed forest landscape (I Sam. 25). Afraid that David will attack her husband for refusing to pay for David's protection, Abigail and her servants gather together gifts of food to appease the approaching troops. Thanks to her beauty and her eloquence, Abigail succeeds not only in avoiding war but also in eventually winning David’s heart. For Sale at im Kinsky, Austria. See Sale Date & Price Estimate...
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Left: Follower of Jan Brueghel II, Sight: Venus and Amor in a collector's cabinet, a View of Antwerp in the distance; Right: Attributed to Jan Van Kessel I, Touch: A mother and child seated under arcade with a pile of armor, a cavalry skirmish and a burning town in the background

Follower of Jan Brueghel II, Sight: Venus and Amor in a collector's cabinet, a View of Antwerp in the distance
Oil on panel, 56 x 89 cm
The Five Senses constitutes one of the best known and most successful series replicated by various Flemish artists. Jan Brueghel the Younger worked in a similar painting style to his father and followed his practice, which included depicting art galleries of both existing and imaginary collections. This allegory of Sight shows how art collections were assembled to reflect both the wealth and the learning of their owners. Sight was considered as the most important of all the senses since the time of Aristotle. Here Venus examines herself in a mirror, in a cabinet of curiosities full of pictures, antique sculptures, objets d'art, and scientific instruments. For Sale at Il Ponte Casa D'Aste, Italy. See Sale Date & Price Estimate...
Painting with the same subject was sold at the Old Masters Day Sale at Christie’s London on 6 July 2018 for 162,500 GBP. Compare past auction results for similar artworks » [Artwork 1], [Artwork 2]

Attributed to Jan Van Kessel I, Touch: A mother and child seated under arcade with a pile of armor, a cavalry skirmish and a burning town in the background
Oil on panel, 56 x 89 cm
As highlighted in the previous lot, the practice of personifying the Five Senses as women was very common and originally found its roots in sixteenth-century graphic works in the Netherlands. For Jan van Kessel, however, the most direct influence for the subject stemmed from Jan Brueghel the Elder (1568-1625), in whose workshop he had trained before becoming an independent master in Antwerp in 1645.
Van Kessel’s small-scale, brightly colored, and minutely detailed paintings on panel or copper were highly regarded by connoisseurs and princely collectors and still today are very sought after by art experts. In the present painting is depicted the allegory of Touch: a woman embraces a putto in a superbly equipped armoury where there are also medical instruments, pain being an aspect of touch. For Sale at Il Ponte Casa D'Aste, Italy. See Sale Date & Price Estimate...
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Left: Anton Franz Hampisch, A picture gallery with two collectors and a painter at his easel; Right: Angelica Kauffmann, Immortalia, the nymph of immortality, receiving nameplates from two swans; and Silvia, decorating herself with flowers while observed by Daphne

Anton Franz Hampisch, A picture gallery with two collectors and a painter at his easel
oil on canvas, 79 x 96 cm
This painting shows a truly spectacular assembly of artworks depicted by the Czech artist Anton Franz Hampisch, whose artworks are very rare and have never been auctioned. Very little is known about the origins and training of the painter, except that in 1727 he and two of his colleagues appraised the famous collection of Count Kolowrat in Prague and Reichenau. In the present work, the walls are covered with paintings that are strictly symmetrical, similarly as in the works of late Flemish representatives of this genre. Among the artworks depicted we can find, for example, the Rubens’s composition of Mary Magdalene and Martha, which in the eighteenth century was in the collection of Count Nostitz in Prague (now Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna), still life paintings and landscapes by Joos de Momper and Johann Heinrich Roos. For Sale at Dorotheum, Austria. See Sale Date & Price Estimate...

Angelica Kauffmann, Immortalia, the nymph of immortality, receiving nameplates from two swans; and Silvia, decorating herself with flowers while observed by Daphne
oil on canvas laid down on panel, 81.8 x 73 cm and 81.8 x 62.2 cm, a pair
The demand for Old Masters painted by female artists is increasing in the international art world, and works by Angelica Kauffmann have reached very high prices. Angelica Kauffmann was a Swiss painter of international training and reputation, best known for her Neoclassical paintings. During the early 1760s, she traveled through Switzerland, Austria, and Italy working as her father’s assistant. This transient life provided her the rare opportunity for a woman to see and copy many classical and Renaissance masterworks and to meet leaders of the popular new movement known as Neoclassicism. In Rome Kaufmann adapted Johann Winkelmann's artistic ideals of Noble Simplicity and it emerges in this pair of artworks. During the last years of her life, she received numerous honours, becoming one of the most celebrated and famous female painters of the 18th century. For Sale at Dorotheum, Austria. See Sale Date & Price Estimate...
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Left: Prague School, 17th Century, Venus in the Forge of Vulcan; Right: Trophime Bigot, The Mocking of Christ

Prague School, 17th Century, Venus in the Forge of Vulcan
oil on canvas, 216 x 157.8 cm
This painting is strongly reminiscent of the female figure of Rudolfine Court Painters in Prague. The voluptuous figure of Venus is depicted in a classical style. The reddish drapery enhances the beautiful pale complexion and the graceful body of the goddess of Love. Paintings attributed to artists from the Prague school have reached high prices in the art market and the present work has an intriguing estimate. For Sale at Bonhams, UK. See Sale Date & Price Estimate...
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Trophime Bigot, The Mocking of Christ
oil on canvas, 74 x 99.1 cm
The subject of this painting was taken from passages in the New Testament that recount the stages of Christ’s Passion, the most relevant being the Gospel according to St. Matthew. It was executed by the Provençal painter Trophime Bigot, who is also sometimes called or confused with the Candlelight Master. His high-quality artworks are very rare in the art market. He is well known for his candle-lit scenes with heavy but subtle chiaroscuro in a style similar to that of Georges de La Tour. He fully absorbed the influence of the works of Caravaggio since he traveled to Italy around 1620 and resided in Rome. For Sale at Christie's, New York. See Sale Date & Price Estimate...
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Left: Jusepe de Ribera, called lo Spagnoletto, Saint Andrew; Right: Erasmus Quellinus II, The Triumph of Hope

Jusepe de Ribera, called lo Spagnoletto, Saint Andrew
oil on canvas, 127.8 x 100.7 cm
This masterfully executed portrait of Saint Andrew reflects the unique expressive and vivid realism typical of the Spanish painter Jusepe de Ribera. His starting point was the naturalism of Caravaggio through first-hand knowledge of the artist’s works, as well as his contacts with the northern Caravaggesque artists who were working in Rome while Ribera was there. The marked tenebrism of the work, the contrast between light and shadow that makes the figure of the saint stand out against the dark background, producing a sense of volume through the modeling on his face and body are the main traits of Ribera’s style. Saint Andrew´s nude torso allows the Spanish painter to demonstrate how he was one of the most skilled artists of his time in describing human anatomy. For Sale at Christie's, New York. See Sale Date & Price Estimate...
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Erasmus Quellinus II, The Triumph of Hope
oil on panel, 73.7 x 73.4 cm
This painting represents the allegorical theme of the triumph of Hope, here depicted as a woman carrying a heart with her left hand and seated on a sumptuous chariot. It was painted by one of the closest pupils of Peter Paul Rubens, Erasmus Quellinus the Younger, whose works are rare in the art market. Following Rubens’ death in 1640 he became one of the most prolific and successful painters in Flanders. Characteristics of Quellinus’s style are the strong modeling of forms achieved through a sculptural use of light. In particular, from the 1640s, his figures became sculptural and three-dimensional and resembled painted sculptures. For Sale at Christie's, New York. See Sale Date & Price Estimate...
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