Classic Week: London | Christie’s

SIR ANTHONY VAN DYCK (ANTWERP 1599-1641 LONDON)

An Andalusian horse (recto) ; A wooded landscape – a sketch (verso)

GIOVANNI BATTISTA TIEPOLO, CALLED GIAMBATTISTA TIEPOLO (VENICE 1696-1770 MADRID)

Guilty Punchinello

PIETER BRUEGHEL II (BRUSSELS 1564-1638 ANTWERP)

The Sermon of St. John the Baptist

FRANCESCO HAYEZ (VENICE 1791-1882 MILAN)

Bathsheba

REMBRANDT HARMENSZ. VAN RIJN (1606-1669)

Christ crucified between the two Thieves: 'The Three Crosses'

MICHELE MARIESCHI (VENICE 1710-1743)

Venice, a stonemason's yard on the Grand Canal, with a view of the Palazzo Ca' Tron, the Palazzo Belloni Battagia, the Fondaco del Megio and the Fondaco dei Turchi; and Venice, the Doge's Palace with the Campanile, the Libreria and Santa Maria della Salute beyond

GUSTAVE COURBET (FRENCH, 1819-1877)

Le poète ou Le sculpteur

CLARA PEETERS (ANTWERP ?1589-AFTER 1657)

A stack of cheese on a pewter platter, with butter on a plate, a stoneware jug, bread, pretzels, wine in a façon-de-Venise glass and a knife, on a ledge

BIBLE, in German

BIBLE, in German. Translated by Martin LUTHER (1483-1546). Biblia, das ist, die gantze Heilige Schrifft Deudsch . Wittenberg: Hans Lufft, 1534.

A MONUMENTAL ROMAN MARBLE JANIFORM HERM OF BACCHUS AND ARIADNE

CIRCA 2ND-3RD CENTURY A.D.

Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

Series of 43 autograph letters signed ('Albert Einstein' (4), 'Albert' (23), the later letters with variations on the pet-name 'Johannzel', two letters lacking signature) to his first wife, Mileva Marić, [Zurich, Milan, Mettmenstetten, Melchtal, Winterthur, Schaffhausen and Bern, 16 February 1898 - ?19 September 1903]

REMBRANDT HARMENSZ. VAN RIJN (1606-1669)

The Entombment

GABRIEL METSU (LEIDEN 1629-1667 AMSTERDAM)

A smoker lighting his pipe

Major General William Thomas Eden (1768-1851), youngest son of Sir Robert Eden, 1st Baronet, of Maryland

A panoramic view of Calcutta, 1812

FOLLOWER OF HANS HOLBEIN II

Portrait of Sir Thomas Wyatt the Younger ( c .1521-1544), bust-length, in profile

REMBRANDT HARMENSZ. VAN RIJN (1606-1669)

Woman with the Arrow

SIR PETER PAUL RUBENS (SIEGEN 1577-1640 ANTWERP) AND STUDIO

Portrait of Isabella Clara Eugenia (1566-1633), Governess of Southern Netherlands, as a widow, three-quarter-length

MICHAEL PETER ANCHER (BORNHOLM 1849–1927 SKAGEN)

Young girl on Skagen Soenderstrand (Ung pige på Skagen Sønderstrand)

JAN BRUEGHEL I (BRUSSELS 1568-1625 ANTWERP) AND JOOS DE MOMPER II (ANTWERP C.1564-1635)

A winter river landscape with travellers on a path

WORKSHOP OF PIETRO LORENZETTI (ACTIVE SIENA C.1306-1345)

The Crucifixion with the Virgin, Mary Magdalene, John the Evangelist and a Franciscan Saint

A ROMAN LIMESTONE FIGURE OF ANTINOUS

REIGN OF HADRIAN, CIRCA 130-138 A.D.

JAN VAN DE CAPPELLE (AMSTERDAM 1626-1679)

A calm with fishing boats and figures on a jetty

GERRIT VAN HONTHORST (UTRECHT 1592-1656)

Allegory of Lust

PIETRO ANTONIO ROTARI (VERONA 1707-1762 ST PETERSBURG)

The Meeting of Alexander the Great and Roxana, behind a trompe l'oeil curtain

A ROMAN MARBLE PORTRAIT BUST OF THE EMPEROR CARACALLA

SEVERAN PERIOD, CIRCA 212-217 A.D.

REMBRANDT HARMENSZ. VAN RIJN (1606-1669)

Christ and the Woman of Samaria: an arched Print

The Psalter of Count Ludwig the Younger of Oettingen

Psalter, in German with Latin incipits, illuminated manuscript on vellum, Swabia, 1418

REMBRANDT HARMENSZ. VAN RIJN (1606-1669)

Abraham entertaining the Angels

REMBRANDT HARMENSZ. VAN RIJN (1606-1669)

The Monk in the Cornfield

AN EGYPTIAN BRONZE CAT

LATE PERIOD, 26TH-30TH DYNASTY, CIRCA 664-343 B.C.

ANDREAS SCHELFHOUT (THE HAGUE 1787-1870)

Winter landscape

Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)

Autograph manuscript signed (at end, 'Igor Stravinsky'), The Firebird (L'oiseau de feu) , Suite for small orchestra ('Instrumenté pour petit orchestre'), the last 14 bars of the 'Berceuse' and the complete 'Final', [Morges], 31 March 1915

REMBRANDT HARMENSZ. VAN RIJN (1606-1669)

Christ presented to the People ('Ecce Homo')

REMBRANDT HARMENSZ. VAN RIJN (1606-1669)

The Bridge at Klein Kostverloren on the Amstel ('Six's Bridge')

REMBRANDT HARMENSZ. VAN RIJN (1606-1669)

Woman at the Bath with a Hat beside her

ADRIAEN JANSZ. VAN OSTADE (HAARLEM 1610-1685)

A wedding feast in an inn

ALESSANDRO TURCHI, CALLED L'ORBETTO (VERONA 1578-1649 ROME)

The Abduction of Helen

Ovid (43BC - 17 or 18 AD)

The Gladstone Metamorphoses , in Latin, manuscript on paper [Italy, first half 15th century]

Richard Wagner (1813-1883)

Autograph manuscript signed (at end, ‘Richard Wagner‘), the first poetical draft of the libretto for Tannhäuser , here titled ‘Das Venusberg / Romantische Oper in 3 Acten’, Dresden, 29 January – 22 March 1843

FLINDERS, Matthew (1774-1814)

A Voyage to Terra Australis; undertaken for the purpose of completing the discovery of that vast country, and prosecuted in the years 1801, 1802, and 1803, in his Majesty's Ship the Investigator . London: W. Bulmer and Co. for G. and W. Nicol, 1814. [Vol. I only]

REMBRANDT HARMENSZ. VAN RIJN (1606-1669)

The Flight into Egypt: a Night Piece

Virgil (70-19 BC)

The Gladstone Aeneid , in Latin, decorated manuscript on paper [Italy, first half 15th century]

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)

Autograph sketch leaf for the string quartet in C, op. 59 no.3, the second movement, [Vienna, 1806]

HOMER (c. 8th century BCE)

Opera , in Greek. Venice: Aldus Manutius, [after 31 October 1504] [ Bound with :] QUINTUS Smyrnaeus (fl. 4th century). [Posthomerica:] Derelictorum ab Homero libri quatuordecim , in Greek. - TRYPHIODORUS (3rd or 4th century). De Trojae excidio , in Greek. - COLLUTHUS. De raptu Helenae , in Greek. [Venice: Aldus Manutius, c.1505]

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