Old Masters Evening Sale

Bringing together remarkable rediscoveries and masterworks spanning the fifteenth to twentieth centuries, Christie’s Old Masters Evening Sale on 8 December is led by Quentin Metsys’s extraordinary An Old Man, the celebrated companion to An Old Woman (‘The Ugly Duchess’) in the National Gallery, London. Among the other highlights are Jan van Huysum’s magnificent pair of flower and fruit still lifes, the only known large-scale pendants of their kind remaining together in private hands, once owned by Empress Joséphine and later the Rothschild family. The sale also features Lucas Cranach the Elder’s exquisite Lucretia, his earliest surviving treatment of the subject, and a remarkable pair of Roman views by Bernardo Bellotto, formerly in the collection of the Earls of Lovelace. Further highlights include the Master of the Virgo inter Virgines’s Resurrection, a rare fifteenth-century Netherlandish panel originally forming part of an altarpiece alongside a Lamentation now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, an exceptional Spanish still life by Juan de Zurbarán, and Frederic, Lord Leighton’s celebrated Antique Juggling Girl.

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