Old Master Drawings

Contact

• London

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    Jonathan den Otter

    Associate Specialist

    Jonathan den Otter

    Associate Specialist

    jdenotter@christies.com+44 (0) 207 389 2736

    After graduating at Leiden University (BA, History of Art), Jonathan den Otter received his MA from the VU University, Amsterdam in 2013 (History of Art: Art, Market & Connoisseurship). In 2014 Jonathan joined the Prints department at Christie’s in London as a Graduate Intern and later that year moved to the Old Master Drawings department as a Cataloguer. The first major sale Jonathan worked on in this capacity was the I.Q. van Regteren Altena sale, comprising of four auctions and including many artist records, among them Hendrick Goltzius’ The artist’s right hand (£2,658,500) and Sir Peter Paul Rubens’ Samson and Delilah (£3,218,500). Later successes Jonathan has worked on include the sale of several drawings from Harewood, including Giovanni Battista Tiepolo’s Head of a boy (£542,500), and the Brian Sewell: Critic & Collector sale, which included many outstanding results such as Daniele da Volterra’s Dido reclining, which sold for £797,000, and Baldassare Peruzzi’s Design for a bench which made £353,000.

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    Noël Annesley

    Senior Consultant

    Noël Annesley

    Senior Consultant

    nannesley@christies.com+44 (0)20 7389 2405

    Noël Annesley joined Christie’s in 1964. Fifty-four years later he is still working there, and in September 2016 he organised the sale at King Street of the collection of Brian Sewell, his first boss, who had left Christie’s in 1967 and gone on to become a celebrated journalist. Together they set up the department of Prints and Drawings. Over the years Noël has made some exciting discoveries. One of them, a magnificent drawing by the early 16th Century Venetian artist Sebastiano del Piombo, now belonging to the National Gallery of Art in Washington, was included in the exhibition ‘Michelangelo and Sebastiano’ at the National Gallery, London, earlier this year. It was in the Michelangelo drawings exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum, New York, November 2017-February 2018. Noël took his first auction in 1967, and over the years achieved record prices for Titian, Canaletto, Michelangelo and Raphael. He organised and conducted the celebrated sales of Old Master Drawings from Chatsworth in 1984 and 1987, and Old Master Prints in 1986. In 2007 he sold Turner’s famous watercolour ‘The Blue Rigi’ for £5.8 million. It is now in the Tate Gallery. He served as Deputy Chairman of Christie’s International plc from 1992-2000, and was a long serving Trustee of the Dulwich Picture Gallery, and a Governor of the Yehudi Menuhin School.

• New York

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    Furio Rinaldi

    Associate Specialist

    Furio Rinaldi

    Associate Specialist

    frinaldi@christies.com+1 212 636 2328

    Furio Rinaldi received degrees from the University of Milan (BA and MA, 2009) and the University of Rome (PhD, 2014). After a Fellowship at the Fondazione Roberto Longhi, Florence (2010) he joined in 2012 the Department of Drawings and Prints of the Metropolitan Museum as an Andrew W. Mellon and then as Research Assistant where he worked on a major loan exhibition dedicated to Michelangelo, scheduled to open in the Fall of 2017. A specialist on Italian drawings, he has published extensively in The Burlington Magazine, Master Drawings and has contributed to international exhibitions. His field of expertise is Italian Renaissance drawing, mainly from the schools of Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael and Michelangelo. He’s the author of Leonardo da Vinci’s De Ludo Geometrico: Drawings from the Codex Atlanticus (2013) and After 1564: Michelangelo’s Legacy in Late Cinquecento Rome (2016).

• Paris

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    Stijn Alsteens

    International Head of Department

    Stijn Alsteens

    International Head of Department

    salsteens@christies.com+33 (0) 1 40 76 83 59

    Prior to joining Christie’s in November 2016, Stijn was curator at the Frits Lugt Collection, Paris, and, since 2006, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He has published extensively, especially in the field of Netherlandish sixteenth- and seventeenth-century art, and has curated several exhibitions, including Van Dyck: The Anatomy of Portraiture at the Frick Collection, New York (Spring 2016). At the Metropolitan Museum, Stijn has been deeply involved in enriching the collection of Northern European drawings with works ranging from the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries. Stijn Alsteens is responsible for Christie’s sales of Old Master Drawings since November 2016, working closely with specialists in salerooms worldwide.

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    Hélène Rihal

    Head of Sale

    Hélène Rihal

    Head of Sale

    hrihal@christies.com+33 (0)1 40 76 86 13

    Hélène Rihal began her career at the National Museum of the Renaissance of the castle of Ecouen, and then in the graphic arts department of Valenciennes Art Museum. As a specialist in French drawings of the 18th century and more precisely the graphic artworks of Charles Parrocel (1688–1752), she was involved in the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts drawings exhibition and in the writing of the catalogue Une dynastie de Peintres, les Parrocel (2008).
    
    On the strength of her experience and detailed studies in history of art, she joined the Old Master Paintings department of Christie’s France in 2004, before becoming specialist in the Old Master Drawings department in 2006. Among her successes, is the sale of Etude de Chien by Alexandre-François Desportes (€186,000) and of a private drawings collection from 1500–1900 in 2007 (€2,100,000). From 2010 to 2013, she led remarkable auctions such as the collection of a Parisian amateur including around 30 French drawings from the 18th century (€500,000) and Trésors de la collection Veil Picard (€9,700,000).

• Amsterdam

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    Manja Rottink

    International Senior Specialist Old Master Paintings Director

    Manja Rottink

    International Senior Specialist Old Master Paintings Director

    mrottink@christies.com+31 (0)20 575 5283

    After receiving her degree at the University of Groningen with a monograph on the Dutch painter Jacob de Heusch (1656-1701), Manja continued her research at the Dutch institutes in Rome and Florence on Netherlandish artists in late 17th century Italy. Upon her return, she started her career with a major auction house in the beginning of 2002, joining Christie’s as an Old Master specialist three years later. Manja formerly headed the Old Masters & 19th Century Department and oversaw many sales, among which the most successful sale of an old master in Amsterdam with the Master of the Embroidered Foliage in 2012 (€1.4M). She was also instrumental in the sale of Jan Davidsz. de Heem’s flower still life in 2012 (£3M) and a maritime view by Willem van de Velde II in December 2014 (£2.2M). Manja is based in the Netherlands working internationally as senior specialist and is specialised in Dutch and Flemish old master paintings.

• Brussels

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    Anke Held

    International Senior Specialist

    Anke Held

    International Senior Specialist

    aheld@christies.com+32 49 161 3707

    In November 2010 Anke Held joined Christie’s as an Old Master Senior Specialist. She did her Master studies at the Universities of Augsburg and Padua (Art History, Classical Archaeology and Roman Literature) and finished her Doctor studies in 1994 with a monograph about the German Baroque painter Georg Phillipp Rugendas (1666-1742). After an initial activity in the field of cultural journalism and of scientific research and publication she started her career in the auction world in the begin of 1996 joining Nagel Auctioneers at Stuttgart. Since 1997 she was the representative for Nagel Auctioneers in Benelux and from 2003 to 2009 head of the newly created department for Old Masters. In this function Anke prepared and supervised more than 30 auctions at Stuttgart. 2010 she started to run the Brussels office for Van Ham Fine Auctioneers at Cologne and was their consultant for Old Master Paintings. At Christie’s Anke is mainly responsible for business getting in Germany but also in Belgium, in which capacity she conducted the consignment of the most expensive Old Master painting sold ever at Christie’s Amsterdam in November 2012 (Master of the Embroidered Foliage, € 1,210,000. hammer). Anke is specialised in German baroque painting and speaks German, English, French, Italian and Dutch.