Fantasy Portraits and Golden Highlights from Master Paintings

Ansano Di Pietro di Mencio, called Sano di Pietro, Madonna and Child; Saint John the Baptist; Saint Jerome: A Portable Triptych. Estimate $300,000–500,000.

This depiction of the Madonna and Christ, flanked by Saint John the Evangelist and Saint Jerome, is a rare, intact, portable triptych by Sano di Pietro, dating back to the 15th century.

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Jacopo Robusti, called Jacopo Tintoretto, Portrait of a young nobleman, three-quarter length, with a black velvet cap, doublet, and cape, resting his hand on a sword. Estimate $80,000–120,000.

This 1551 painting is from one of the most important periods of Tintoretto’s development as a portrait painter. The same year this work was completed, Tintoretto replaced Titian as the official portraitist of the Venetian Republic – a position he secured through his social connections, the quality of his work and the speed of his execution.

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Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, Portrait of a young woman dressed as a page, bust-length. Estimate $100,000–150,000.

This depiction of a young woman dressed as a page is one of a group of fantasy portraits by Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo which have been dated to his years in Spain between 1762–70. These bust-length portraits were probably conceived in sets, portraying young women dressed in exotic costumes, adorned with garlands of flowers, musical instruments or other props.

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Fede Galizia, Still life of peaches, jasmine, and a spray of hyacinth in a metal fruit stand, with tulips and hazelnuts in the hull, all on a stone ledge. Estimate $100,000–150,000.

This vivid still life is an early work by the pioneering female painter Fede Galizia. The artist played a fundamental role in the emergence of still-life painting throughout Italy and Europe during the first quarter of the 17th century.

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Jean-Baptiste Greuze, L’effroi, a young girl, bust-length, with her hair tied in a red scarf. Estimate $80,000–120,000.

Greuze often painted close-up studies of heads, or têtes d'expression, as a method of exploring a range of emotions. The present painting, called l'effroi, or "fright," subtly depicts a young, nervous and scared girl turned to the side. Greuze was unmatched in his ability to capture emotion in a realistic and empathetic sense.

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Jacopo del Casentino, Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints and Angels. Estimate $150,000–250,000.

This gracefully rendered panel likely dates to the 1330s and is characteristic of the refined works of Jacopo del Casentino. Once forming the central panel of a small portable triptych meant for private devotion, the work is enlivened with a vivid palette set against a gold background, and it clearly reflects the prevailing movement of Florentine artists of the period away from the monumentality of Giotto’s style and towards a more "miniaturist tendency," a feature that defines much of Jacopo’s known corpus.

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Property from a Distinguished Collection. Jacopo Robusti, called Jacopo Tintoretto, Allegory of Autumn. Estimate $300,000–500,000.

This monumental figure of a recumbent man as an Allegory of the Season of Autumn, was painted by the young Tintoretto in circa 1546 for the Barbo family as part of a ceiling decorating a room in the Ca' Barbo, their 15th-century palazzo near the church of San Pantaleone, Venice.

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Santi di Tito, Portrait of Marie de’ Medici. Estimate $40,000–60,000.

Santi di Tito's Portrait of Marie de' Medici reflects the influence of Bronzino, the artist's master, while also offering a more naturalistic approach.

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Panfilo Nuvolone, Still life with a raised stand, peaches, figs, and a pumpkin, all on a marble ledge. Estimate $80,000–120,000.

Painted with exquisite order and sensitivity, this beautiful still life of peaches, figs and a pumpkin is among the most refined and detailed works by Panfilo Nuvolone.

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Adriaen Isenbrant, The Flight into Egypt. Estimate $150,000–200,000.

Rendered from a bird's-eye perspective with close attention to detail, this work is a remarkable example of Netherlandish landscape painting and encourages an exploration of every corner of its impressive vista, from the dense group of trees in the right foreground to the soft, blue-toned horizon in the distance.

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