Exceptional Old Master and British Works on Paper

Exceptional Old Master and British Works on Paper

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  Giovanni Antonio Canal, called Canaletto
  The Presentation of the Doge in S. Marco
  Estimate £1,500,000–2,000,000

  Canaletto’s The Presentation of the Doge in S. Marco is the first in a celebrated series of twelve elaborate drawings that the artist made around 1763-66, depicting the various festivals of the doges. Early views of the interior of St. Mark’s are extremely rare.

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  Jean Antoine Watteau
  Recto: Sheet of studies: Head of a young man in profile, facing right, a man kneeling, seen from behind and a young man, in profile, facing left
  Estimate £300,000–500,000

  Aesthetically appealing, this double-sided sheet, with three very different figure studies on one side and a rare, ethereal landscape in black chalk on the other, is one of the most significant drawings by Antoine Watteau to come to the market in recent decades.

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  Paul Sandby, R.A.
  Sandby's views of North Wales
  Estimate £250,000–350,000

  The rediscovery of this extraordinary group of 21 works by Sandby, which bring to life his iconic tour of north Wales of 1771, has caused great excitement amongst scholars.

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  Baccio Bandinelli
  The Labours of Hercules
  Estimate £80,000–120,000

  This sheet, one of the finest by Baccio Bandinelli to have come to auction in recent years, depicting the Labours of Hercules, perfectly displays his artistic personality, in which his immense skill as both draughtsman and sculptor come together to create a narrative full of pictorial impact.

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  Joseph Mallord William Turner, R.A.
  Sun-rise. Whiting Fishing at Margate
  Estimate £800,000–1,200,000

  This great watercolour sees Turner fully engage with the elements of the natural world that most inspired him – the sun, the sky and the sea. Painted on an unusually large scale, the work can be seen as among the most important to remain in private hands.

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  Giovanni Battista di Jacopo Rosso, called Rosso Fiorentino
  The Visitation
  Estimate £500,000–700,000

  An immensely important rediscovered compositional drawing by the great Florentine mannerist, Rosso Fiorentino, the authenticity of which is proved by the fact that the drawing itself is described in some detail by Rosso’s 16th-century biographer, Giorgio Vasari. Rosso’s drawings hardly ever appear on the market.

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  Luca Penni
  Susannah and the Elders
  Estimate £80,000–120,000

  A very important addition to Luca Penni’s corpus of surviving drawings, this is a beautifully detailed sheet, dominated by the sculptural nude of Susannah in the middle of the composition, flanked by the bearded figures of the Elders, wearing elaborate garments with angular and voluminous folds.

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  Louis Carrogis called Carmontelle
  A panoramic landscape transparency, from the 'campagnes de france'
  Estimate £150,000–200,000

  This immense, panoramic landscape, no less than 12.5 metres long, is an extremely rare surviving example of a highly original, but today almost unknown, art form that Carmontelle himself invented, and with which he utterly captivated the French aristocracy during the final years of the ancien régime.

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  Agostino Carracci
  Study of a standing bearded male nude seen from behind, his right arm extended
  Estimate £35,000–45,000

  This bold image of a nude, seen from behind, by the Bolognese artist Agostino Carracci, is executed with flamboyant energy and sinuous contours, and is remarkably close to our modern sensibility in its strength and directness.

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