Classic Week: London | Christie’s

GIOVANNI ANTONIO CANAL, CALLED IL CANALETTO (VENICE 1697–1768)

Venice, the Return of the Bucintoro on Ascension Day

JAN DAVIDSZ. DE HEEM (UTRECHT 1606-1684 ANTWERP)

A pie on a pewter plate, a partially peeled lemon and overturned silver spoon on a pewter plate, crayfish and shrimp in a Wanli bowl, fruit, a walnut and an oyster on a pewter plate, a basket of fruit, a fluted glass, a silver-gilt cup, a roemer, an overturned silver tazza on a strong box, a silver ewer and a bread roll all on a partially draped table with a curtain beyond

TIZIANO VECELLIO, CALLED TITIAN (PIEVE DI CADORE C. 1485⁄90-1576 VENICE)

Portrait of a nobleman, seated before a window

GERRIT DOU (LEIDEN 1613-1675)

A cottage interior with an old woman ('Rembrandt's Mother') delousing a boy's hair

JAN VAN HUYSUM (AMSTERDAM 1682-1749)

Roses and other flowers in a terracotta vase with a bird’s nest on a marble ledge; and Fruit, roses and peonies in a basket with hazelnuts on a marble ledge

PIETER BRUEGHEL THE YOUNGER (BRUSSELS 1564-1638 ANTWERP)

The Birdtrap

[GALILEO GALILEI (1564-1642) and Girolamo SPINELLI (c.1580-1647)]

Dialogo de Cecco di Ronchitti da Bruzene. In perpuosito de la stella nuova . Padua: Pietro Paulo Tozzi, 1605.

A UNION JACK FLOWN FROM HMS SPARTIATE AT THE BATTLE OF TRAFALGAR, 21 OCTOBER 1805

WILLEM KEY (BREDA 1515⁄16-1568 ANTWERP)

Portrait of Margret Halseber of Basel, also known as 'The Lady with the two beards', bust-length

GEORGE STUBBS, A.R.A. (LIVERPOOL 1724-1806 LONDON)

A prancing horse with two dogs, in a landscape

MATTIA PRETI (CALABRIA 1613-1699 VALLETTA)

Samuel anointing David

PLINIUS SECUNDUS, Gaius (Pliny the Elder, 23-79)

Historia naturalis . Venice: Johannes de Spira, [before 18 September] 1469.

PIETER BRUEGHEL THE YOUNGER (BRUSSELS 1564-1638 ANTWERP)

Visit to the Farm

DOMÉNIKOS THEOTOKÓPOULOS, CALLED EL GRECO (CRETE 1541-1614 TOLEDO) AND STUDIO

Christ taking leave of His Mother

JOSEPH MALLORD WILLIAM TURNER, R.A. (LONDON 1775-1851)

Lake Brienz, with the setting Moon

FRANS HALS (ANTWERP 1582⁄3-1666 HAARLEM)

Portrait of Johannes Hoornbeeck (1617-1666), half-length, in black dress, holding a book

JAN BRUEGHEL THE ELDER (BRUSSELS 1568-1625 ANTWERP)

A mountainous wooded landscape with hermits and a mass being held at a shrine

BERNARDO BELLOTTO (VENICE 1721-1780 WARSAW)

The Fishermen’s Village at Pirna

LUCAS CRANACH THE YOUNGER (WITTENBERG 1515-1586 WEIMAR)

Venus with Cupid the Honey Thief

A LATE LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED CARVED LAPIS LAZULI TAZZA

THE LAPIS LAZULI, ITALIAN, LATE 16TH OR 17TH CENTURY, THE MOUNTS ATTRIBUTED TO FRANCOIS REMOND OR PIERRE-PHILIPPE THOMIRE, CIRCA 1792

SIR ALFRED JAMES MUNNINGS, P.R.A., R.W.S. (MENDHAM, SUFFOLK 1878-1959 DEDHAM, ESSEX)

Brown Jack

JOHN CONSTABLE, R.A. (EAST BERGHOLT, SUFFOLK 1776-1837 LONDON)

Cloud Study, possibly over Harnham Ridge

AN ORMOLU AND SILVER-GILT MOUNTED CARVED AGATE EWER AND BASIN

THE AGATE EWER BASIN LATE 17TH CENTURY, THE ORMOLU MOUNTS ATTRIBUTED TO PIERRE-PHILIPPE THOMIRE, CIRCA 1789-1800

JACOB JORDAENS (ANTWERP 1593-1678)

Portrait of the artist, bust-length, in a cap

TADDEO GADDI (FLORENCE C. 1320-1366)

Saint Matthew - pinnacle to the San Giovanni Fuorcivitas Polyptych

A PAIR OF GEORGE III LACQUERED-GILT-BRASS-MOUNTED KINGWOOD, HAREWOOD, AMARANTH AND MARQUETRY SERPENTINE COMMODES

ATTRIBUTED TO JOHN LINNELL, CIRCA 1765

A DUTCH SILVER WINE CISTERN

MARK OF ADAM LOOFS, THE HAGUE, 1704

NEWTON, Sir Isaac (1642-1727)

Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica . Edited by Edmond Halley (1656-1743). London: Joseph Streater for the Royal Society [at the expense of Edmond Halley], to be sold by various booksellers, 1687

JAN BRUEGHEL THE YOUNGER (ANTWERP 1601-1678)

Roses, parrot tulips, narcissi, a lily, a delphinium, borage, moss roses, forget-me-nots, viola and other flowers in a pewter vase, with a strawberry sprig and a fly on a wooden ledge

MICHELE PACE DEL CAMPIDOGLIO (VITORCHIANO 1625-1670 ROME)

A hound in a landscape

AN EGYPTIAN WOOD POLYCHROME AND GILT ANTHROPOID COFFIN FOR DJEDHOR

LATE PERIOD - PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, CIRCA 400-30 B.C.

A ROMAN MARBLE HEAD OF VENUS

CIRCA 1ST CENTURY B.C.

JOSEPH MALLORD WILLIAM TURNER, R.A. (LONDON 1775-1851)

Pendennis Castle and the entrance to Falmouth Harbour, Cornwall: Scene after a Wreck

SIR THOMAS LAWRENCE, P.R.A. (BRISTOL 1769-1830 LONDON)

Portrait of Robert Stewart, 2nd Marquess of Londonderry, called Lord Castlereagh (1769-1822), bust-length, wearing the star of the Order of the Garter