16 December 2013, 03:25 PM IST
Sotheby's will have a sale of Important Old Master Paintings and Sculpture, comprising an exceptional selection of works from schools throughout Europe, on January 30, 2014 during its annual Old Masters Week auctions.
The sale is highlighted by a number of important paintings from the Dutch Golden Age, particularly an exciting rediscovery of a work by Jacob Ochtervelt. A Child and Nurse in the Foyer of an Elegant Townhouse, the Parents Beyond is a previously unrecorded painting and is an important addition to the artist's oeuvre (est. $3/4 million). The subject matter and composition are related to a group of nine other "entrance hall paintings" that Ochtervelt made over the course of 20 years and which are universally considered to be among his most innovative and interesting pictures. Meticulously painted, the present work is both a beautiful example of his luminous style as well as a sophisticated representation of Dutch life and values in the mid-17th century.
Jacob Ochtervelt, A Child and Nurse in the Foyer of an Elegant
Townhouse, the Parents Beyond
A further important rediscovery leading the auction is A Merry Group behind a Balustrade with a Violin and a Lute Player by Gerrit van Honthorst (est. $2/3 million, left). A major addition to the artist's oeuvre, the painting has not been seen in public since it was on the auction block in Valenciennes in 1883. This superlative work exemplifies Honthorst's style in every respect, from its sophisticated and accomplished brushwork, to its exuberant figures and its vibrant color scheme.
Gerrit Van Honthorst, A Merry Group Behind a Balustrade
with a Violin and a Lute Player
In a different genre, Jean-Honoré Fragonard's fantastic Two Girls on a Bed Playing with a Dog, painted circa 1770, dates from the artist's most fertile artistic period (est. $6/8 million, left). This is a work that blends the suggestion of a girlish romp as they reveal their lack of lingerie and revel in a play that is brimming with gay abandon. The spontaneous brushwork clearly illustrates why Fragonard's virtuoso technique so impressed his contemporaries and why his style still resonates with the modern viewer as much as it did for the members of the court of Louis XV. This unusual yet deeply intimate scene has been exhibited at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, in 2008 and at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art from 2010 – 2011.
Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Two Girls on a Bed Playing with their Dogs
Pieter Brueghel the Younger
The Bird Trap
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