Old Master Paintings and Sculpture: Part II

Sale Overview

This season’s Old Master Paintings and Sculpture: Part II sale features paintings and sculpture from five centuries of European artistic production. The auction with begins with 10 properties from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, representing some of the most renowned artists of the Dutch Golden Age. Additional sale highlights include a pair of altarpiece wings by Bartholomäus Bruyn recently restored to the heirs of Ralph von Klemperer, a striking Allegory of Natural Law by an unknown Florentine painter and a portrait by Thomas Lawrence of his boyhood friend, from the Estate of Dr Jeffrey Lant. There is something for every collector this season — paintings and sculpture on every scale, even a gold and gem-set Italian pendant from the end of the 16th or early 17th century, with over 25 works selling without reserve.

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Auction times

05 Feb 02:00 PM (EST) Lots 101-230

Our specialist’s selection

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Taylor Alessio

Junior Specialist, Head of Part II | Old Masters

Taylor Alessio graduated from Johns Hopkins University in 2016 with a B.A. in the History of Art. She then began her graduate studies at the Institute of Fine Arts at NYU, where she focused her studies on Sixteenth Century printed ephemera, and graduated with all university honors in 2018. After interning at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and with prominent New York City dealers, she joined Christie’s in fall 2018. In July 2020 she joined the Old Master Paintings team as a cataloguer.

Jennifer Wright

Head of Department | Old Masters

Jennifer Wright was appointed head of Old Master Paintings, New York in June 2024. She has been at Christie’s for 18 years, ten as specialist and head of the Old Master Drawings department, and from 2016-2024 as a Client Relationship Director in the Client Advisory group of the Chairman’s Office. While in Old Master Drawings Jennifer participated in the 2009 sale of Raphael’s Head of a Muse, which sold for £29,000,000, at the time the world record price for a drawing at auction; and in 2013 oversaw the highest-earning various owners Old Master Drawings sale in Christie’s history. While in Client Advisory she managed and developed a portfolio of top-US clients across all collecting categories, and was the driver of several single-owner-sales that featured Old Masters including Property from the Estate of Eugene V. Thaw (2018); Rooms as Portraits: Michael S. Smith (2018, New York and London); Always in Style: Property from the Collection of Herbert Kasper (2021); and Modern Medici: Masterpieces from a New York Collection (2023 and 2024). Jennifer is an auctioneer, and is also co-head of Christie’s charity auctioneering program.

Jennifer earned her undergraduate degree in Art History at Georgetown University, a Master’s degree in Fine and Decorative Art from Sotheby’s Institute, and a Master of Arts degree from New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts. She is an emeritus member of the Georgetown College Board of Advisors, as well as the founder and inaugural chairwoman of the Director’s Council for the Georgetown University Art Galleries.