Old Master Paintings
Masterpieces by the most famous Western artists from the 14th to the early 19th century have appeared in Christie's auctions, including Raphael, Cranach, Titian, Velázquez, Van Dyck, Rembrandt, Hals, Reynolds, Canaletto, Gainsborough and Fragonard. Subjects include still life, landscape, genre, portraiture, religious and grand history themes, with prices ranging from $1,000 to $35.8 million for Turner's Giudecca, La Donna della Salute and San Giorgio (2006). Christie's also holds the world auction record for any Italian, Dutch, French, English and German Old Master painting.
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Exceptional Prices
Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684-1721)
La Surprise: A couple embracing while a figure dressed as Mezzetin tunes a guitar
Price realized: £12,361,250
July 2008, London, King Street
World auction record for any French Old Master
World auction record for the artist
La Surprise: A couple embracing while a figure dressed as Mezzetin tunes a guitar
Price realized: £12,361,250
July 2008, London, King Street
World auction record for any French Old Master
World auction record for the artist
Raffaello Sanzio, called Raphael (1483-1520)
Portrait of Lorenzo de'Medici, Duke of Urbino (1492-1519), three-quarter-length, holding a gold box
Price realized: £18,500,000
July 2007, London, King Street
World auction record for any Italian Old Master
World auction record for the artist
Portrait of Lorenzo de'Medici, Duke of Urbino (1492-1519), three-quarter-length, holding a gold box
Price realized: £18,500,000
July 2007, London, King Street
World auction record for any Italian Old Master
World auction record for the artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner, R.A. (1775-1851)
Giudecca, La Donna della Salute and San Giorgio
Price realized: $35,856,000
April 2006, New York
World auction record for any British painting
World auction record for the artist
Giudecca, La Donna della Salute and San Giorgio
Price realized: $35,856,000
April 2006, New York
World auction record for any British painting
World auction record for the artist
Juan Sánchez Cotán (1560-1627)
Bodegón with a cardoon and francolin
Price realized: £4,037,250
December 2004, London, King Street
World auction record for the artist
Bodegón with a cardoon and francolin
Price realized: £4,037,250
December 2004, London, King Street
World auction record for the artist
Jacopo Di Carruci, Il Pontormo (1494-1556)
Portrait of a halberdier
Price realized: $35,200,000
May 1989, New York
World auction record for the artist
Portrait of a halberdier
Price realized: $35,200,000
May 1989, New York
World auction record for the artist
Sir Thomas Lawrence, P.R.A. (1769-1830)
Portrait of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, K.G., K.B., M.P. (1769-1852)
Price realized: £2,080,000
November 2006, London, King Street
World auction record for the artist
Portrait of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, K.G., K.B., M.P. (1769-1852)
Price realized: £2,080,000
November 2006, London, King Street
World auction record for the artist
Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn (1606-1669)
Portrait of a Lady, aged 62
Price realized: £19,803,750
December 2000, London, King Street
World auction record for any Dutch Old Master
World auction record for the artist
Portrait of a Lady, aged 62
Price realized: £19,803,750
December 2000, London, King Street
World auction record for any Dutch Old Master
World auction record for the artist
Ludovico Carracci (1555-1619)
Salmacis and Hermaphroditus
Price realized: £7,400,000
July 2006, London, King Street
World auction record for the artist
Salmacis and Hermaphroditus
Price realized: £7,400,000
July 2006, London, King Street
World auction record for the artist
Alessandro Filipepi, called Sandro Botticelli (1445?-1510)
The Madonna and Child, with a pomegranate, in an alcove with roses behind
Price realized: £3,816,000
December 2006, London, King Street
World auction record for the artist
The Madonna and Child, with a pomegranate, in an alcove with roses behind
Price realized: £3,816,000
December 2006, London, King Street
World auction record for the artist
Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472-1553)
Portraits of Kurfurst Herzog Johann von Sachsen and of his son, Johann Friedrich
Price realized: £4,840,000
July 1990, London, King Street
World auction record for any German Old Master
World auction record for the artist
Portraits of Kurfurst Herzog Johann von Sachsen and of his son, Johann Friedrich
Price realized: £4,840,000
July 1990, London, King Street
World auction record for any German Old Master
World auction record for the artist
Gerrit Dou (Leiden 1613-1675)
A sleeping dog beside a terracotta jug, a basket, a pair of clogs and a pile of kindling
wood
Price realized: $4,720,000
May 2005, New York
World auction record for the artist
A sleeping dog beside a terracotta jug, a basket, a pair of clogs and a pile of kindling
wood
Price realized: $4,720,000
May 2005, New York
World auction record for the artist
Francesco Guardi (1712-1793)
The Punta della Dogana, Venice, the Giudecca and the Redentore beyond
Price realized: £3,350,000
December 2006, London
The Punta della Dogana, Venice, the Giudecca and the Redentore beyond
Price realized: £3,350,000
December 2006, London
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