Christie's - Old Masters and 19th Century Paintings

Spanning six centuries of European art, the May Old Masters auction will include important examples from the 15th to the early 19th century. The earliest work in the sale is a panel from the upper register of an altarpiece, depicting the Marriage of the Virgin by the 14th-century Venetian artist, Lorenzo Veneziano. Other early Italian works include a fresco fragment of musical angels by an artist in the circle of Bernardino Luini. A highlight of the 18th-century Italian pictures in the sale is an oval formatted painting of the Holy Family with the Infant Saint John the Baptist by Gaetano Gandolfi, its surface rich with impasto and in original unlined condition.

Northern artists are represented by Gerrit Berckheyde’s view of Amsterdam, a sumptuous still life by Willem Kalf, and a wedding scene by an artist in the circle of Pieter Brueghel the Younger. In addition, there are various very fine examples…