Christie’s and Artcurial will take advantage of the buzz of the “Paris Tableau” event to organize separate Old-Master paintings sales during that same week.The Hôtel Dassault’s auction house will offer two private collections on November 13.The first collection, “Rue Galliera,” will be dominated by French 18th-century paintings such as Joseph-Marie Vien’s biblical scene “Sarah présentant Agar à Abraham” from 1749 (estimated at €150,000-€200,000), “La Tempête,” a 1787 work by Joseph Vernet (est: €150,000-€ 200,000) and two works by Jean-Baptiste Oudry. These are Oudry’s hunting scenes “Un portrait d’homme en chasseur” from 1725 and “Chienne blanche à l’arrêt devant un lièvre et un col-vert” (est. €200, 000-€300,000 each).The second collection at Artcurial, called “A Look at the Dutch Golden Age,” features an exceptional group of still-life works executed by specialists of that genre. It includes Jacob van Hulsdonck’s “Pêches, prunes et raisins dans une coupe en porcelaine bleue de Chine” (est: €250,000-€350,000) and Isaac Soreau’s “Corbeille de raisins rouges, blancs et noirs” (est: €100,000-€150,000).For the first time this year, Christie’s follows that calendar event with a selective sale of only 60 lots.Fresh to the market, most of the art offered has a French origin even if a top entry is a Florentine gold ground predella of the Trecento by Niccolo di Pietro Gerini depicting, as the title says a “Madonna with Child among Saints” (est: €250 000-€350 000). Other highlights include a landscape by Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes exhibited in the Salon of 1789, “Philoctète sur l’île de Lemnos” (€150, 000-€250, 000) and an oil-on-panel painting by Gustave Moreau, “Apollon sur un char” (€300, 000-€500, 000).
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