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OLD MASTER PAINTINGS Wednesday 29 October 2014 Knightsbridge, London OLD MASTER PAINTING S | Knightsbridge, London | Wednesday 29 October 2014 | Knightsbridge, London Wednesday 21331 OLD MASTER PAINTINGS Wednesday 29 October 2014 at 1pm Knightsbridge, London BONHAMS BIDS ENQUIRIES CUSTOMER SERVICES Montpelier Street +44 (0) 20 7447 7448 [email protected] Monday to Friday 8.30am to 6pm Knightsbridge +44 (0) 20 7447 4401 fax +44 (0) 20 7468 8307 +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 London SW7 1HH To bid via the internet please visit www.bonhams.com www.bonhams.com SPECIALISTS Please see back of catalogue Andrew McKenzie for important notice to bidders VIEWING TELEPHONE BIDDING +44 (0) 20 7468 8261 Sunday 26 October Bidding by telephone will only be [email protected] ILLUSTRATIONS 11am to 3pm Accepted on lots with a low Front cover: Lot 24 Monday 27 October Estimate in excess of £1,000. 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All other objects For further VAT information Transfer per lot £10.00 please contact: Daily storage per lot £1.70 [email protected] All the above charges are exclusive of VAT. 1 1 GERMAN SCHOOL, 17TH CENTURY Saint John on Patmos oil on panel 26.2 x 20.8cm (10 5/16 x 8 3/16in). £3,000 - 5,000 €3,800 - 6,300 OLD MASTER PAINTINGS | 3 2 3 2 CIRCLE OF HERRI MET DE BLES (BOUVIGNES-SUR-MEUSE CIRCA 1510-1550 ANTWERP) The Penitent Magdalen oil on panel 84 x 61cm (33 1/16 x 24in). £2,000 - 3,000 €2,500 - 3,800 Provenance Sale, Bonhams & Butterfields, San Francisco, 16 May 2006, lot 3035, where purchased by the present owner 3 ENGLISH SCHOOL, CIRCA 1700 Portrait of Edward VI, bust-length, in a black plumed hat oil on panel 21.2 x 16.5cm (8 3/8 x 6 1/2in). £2,000 - 3,000 €2,500 - 3,800 The present work comes closest in type to a detail of one of the full-length portraits of the young king by William Scrots (one is in the Musée du Louvre, Paris, the other is in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen). 4* W ENGLISH SCHOOL, 17TH CENTURY Portrait of a gentleman, three-quarter-length, in a black coat inscribed with a tree (upper left) and the sitter’s coat-of-arms (upper right) oil on panel 108 x 77.2cm (42 1/2 x 30 3/8in). £3,000 - 5,000 4 €3,800 - 6,300 4 | Bonhams 5 6 5 TUSCAN SCHOOL, 19TH CENTURY The Madonna and Child with Saints Catherine and Agnes oil on gold ground panel, shaped top 44.6 x 20.8cm (17 9/16 x 8 3/16in). £3,000 - 5,000 €3,800 - 6,300 6 FLORENTINE SCHOOL, LATE 15TH CENTURY The Madonna and Child with a donor oil on panel 76.9 x 54cm (30 1/4 x 21 1/4in). unframed £4,000 - 6,000 €5,000 - 7,500 7 STUDIO OF ALESSANDRO DI CRISTOFANO ALLORI (FLORENCE 1535-1607) The Last Communion of Mary Magdalen with Saint Benedict oil on panel 65.9 x 52.2cm (25 15/16 x 20 9/16in). £7,000 - 10,000 €8,800 - 13,000 Provenance Diamanten-Regie, Berlin By whom sold, Graupe, Berlin, 27-29 May 1935, lot 5 Sale, Sotheby’s, London, 7 July 1982, lot 238 Literature Weltkunst, 1933, vol. VII, p. 5 7 S.L. Giovannoni, Alessandro Allori, Turin, 1991, p. 248, under no. 70 (as from the studio of Allori, possibly attributable to Butteri) OLD MASTER PAINTINGS | 5 8 8 FLEMISH SCHOOL, 17TH CENTURY The Good Samaritan putting the traveller on his donkey; and The Good Samaritan paying the innkeeper for the care of the wounded man a pair, oil on panel 11.1 x 13.6cm (4 3/8 x 5 3/8in).