ENGLISH & CONTINENTAL FURNITURE & DECORATIVE ARTS OLD MASTER PAINTINGS & DRAWINGS RUSSIAN WORKS OF ART Including The Estate of AILEEN MEHLE & The Collection of JUDITH TAUBMAN Wednesday, May 24 & Thursday, May 25, 2017 NEW YORK SESSION I ENGLISH & CONTINENTAL FURNITURE & DECORATIVE ARTS OLD MASTER PAINTINGS & DRAWINGS THE ESTATE OF AILEEN MEHLE THE COLLECTION OF JUDITH TAUBMAN AUCTION Wednesday, May 24, 2017 at 10am SESSION II RUSSIAN WORKS OF ART ENGLISH & CONTINENTAL FURNITURE & DECORATIVE ARTS AUCTION Thursday, May 25, 2017 at 10am EXHIBITIONS Saturday, May 20, 10am – 5pm Sunday, May 21, Noon – 5pm Monday, May 22, 10am – 6pm LOCATION Doyle New York 175 East 87th Street New York City 212-427-2730 www.Doyle.com Catalogue: $35 INCLUDING PROPERTY CONTENTS FROM THE ESTATES OF SESSION I Barbara Anspach Old Master Paintings & Drawings 1-114 The Eileen & Herbert C. Bernard Collection The Estate of Aileen Mehle 115-325 Patricia S. Bradshaw The Collection of Judith Taubman 326-366 Donald Brenwasser Silver & Silver Plate 367-418 A Connecticut Collector Furniture & Decorative Arts 419-567 Claudia Cosla, New York Anne H. and John K. Howat SESSION II Mary Kettaneh Russian Works of Art 568-768 Aileen Mehle Furniture & Decorative Arts 769-843 A Private New York Estate Carpets, Rugs & Tapestries 844-873 A New York Estate A New York Lady Harry Oppenheimer Anne Dubonnet Shaio Elizabeth Stoerk The Thurston Collection Helen R. Yellin INCLUDING PROPERTY FROM The Collection of Adolfo Glossary I The Descendants of Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna Conditions of Sale II A Greenwich Village Penthouse, New York Terms of Guarantee IV Mrs. Paul Guth Information on Sales & Use Tax V A Lady of Title Buying at Doyle VI A New York Collector Selling at Doyle VIII A New York Private Collection Auction Schedule IX The Jessye Norman ‘White Gates’ Collection SESSION I Company Directory X A Pennsylvania Collection Absentee Bid Form XII A Private Collection A Private Collector, Ardsley, NY A Private Collector, Long Island OLD MASTER PAINTINGS & DRAWINGS A Santa Barbara Collector A Southern California Collector THE ESTATE OF AILEEN MEHLE The Collection of Judith Taubman A Prominent Virginia Collection An Eminent Washington, DC Collector THE COLLECTION OF JUDITH TAUBMAN ENGLISH & CONTINENTAL FURNITURE & DECORATIVE ARTS WEDNESDAY, MAY 24, 2017 Lot 48 7 Circle of Juan Pantoja de la Cruz Portrait of a Lady in Elegant Dress Oil on canvas 32 x 23 3/4 inches (81.3 x 60.3 cm) C $3,000-6,000 See Illustration 8 Follower of Lucas Cranach The Christ Child with the Infant Saint John the Baptist Bearing Cranach’s serpent device and dated 1517 (lr) Oil on panel 15 7/8 x 10 inches (45 x 25 cm) C Property of Mrs. Paul Guth $1,000-3,000 9 16th Century Flemish Manner Christ and the Apostles in a Landscape Oil on panel 19 x 27 1/8 inches (48.3 x 69 cm) C $800-1,200 10 Flemish School 16th Century Portrait of a Monk Inscribed Ano Dni 1571/Aetatis Suae 44 across the upper register Oil on panel 17 1/2 x 13 3/4 inches (44.5 x 34.5 cm) The Latin inscription ANXIA VITA NIHIL on the book is a quotation from a classical Roman epitaph: Decipimur votis; tempore fallimur; mors deridet curas; anxia vita nihil (We are deceived by our wishes; disappointed by time; death laughs at our sorrows; the anxious life is 1 worth nothing). C $1,000-3,000 1 3 5 Italian School Manner of Tiziano Vecellio, called Titian Circle of Jacopo Negretti, 11 16th Century Portrait of Pope Paul III called Palma il Giovane French 15th Century Manner The Adoration of the Magi Oil on canvas laid to Masonite The Baptism of Christ Philip the Bold, Duke of Burgundy and Oil on canvas 19 1/2 x 15 1/2 inches (49.5 x 39.5 cm) Oil on canvas Isabella of Portugal, Duchess of Burgundy: Two 39 x 44 1/2 inches (99 x 113 cm) C 40 1/2 x 33 inches (103 x 84 cm) Oil on canvas C Estate of Elizabeth Stoerk $800-1,200 Unframed 21 x 17 3/8 inches (53.4 x 44.2 cm) $4,000-6,000 C These two portraits appear to belong to a series See Illustration $3,000-6,000 depicting the ducal House of Burgundy. 4 Phillip the Bold (Philippe le Hardi, 1342-1405) Attributed to Jacopo Negretti, was the grandfather of Philip the Good 7 2 called Palma il Giovane 6 (Philippe le Bon, 1395-1467), to whom Italian School The Creation of Eve Attributed to Lambert Sustris Isabella of Portugal (1397-1471) was married 16th Century Brown ink and wash on paper The Martyrdom of a Military Saint in 1430. She became the mother of her Madonna and Child with John the Baptist, 8 3/4 x 5 1/4 inches (22.3 x 13.2 cm) Oil on panel husband’s successor, Charles the Bold Saint Anthony of Padua and a Female Provenance: 9 1/2 x 14 1/8 inches (24 x 36 cm) (Charles le Téméraire, 1433-1477). Monastic Saint Collection of Merrill and Frederick Lake, Provenance: C Bearing the brand mark Fideikommiss New York Sale: Dorotheum, Vienna, March 19, 1937, lot 31 $800-1,200 Wesendonck on the reverse C Purchased by Frau Emmy Gregoric, Vienna; Oil on panel $1,000-2,000 By descent in her family to the present owner 11 3/4 x 17 1/2 inches (30 x 44.5 cm) Private collection, Connecticut 12 Provenance: C Flemish School Otto and Mathilde Wesendonck, $800-1,200 16th/17th Century Zurich and Berlin The Adoration of the Magi Private collection, New York Oil on panel C 19 1/2 x 14 1/2 inches (49.5 x 37 cm) $1,500-3,500 C $1,000-3,000 6 DOYLE • MAY 24 & 25, 2017 • NEW YORK VIEW THE FULLY ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE AND BID ONLINE AT DOYLE.COM 7 19 Paulus Moreelse Dutch, 1571-1638 Portrait of a Lady in a Black Velvet Dress with a Reticella Lace Collar and Brocade Sleeves Signed PMorle and dated 1624 (ur) Oil on panel 28 x 21 ½ inches (71.2 x 54.6 cm) Provenance: Private collection Sale: Parke Bernet Galleries, New York, March 5, 1952, lot 75 Purchased from the above sale by a private collector Descended in the same family to the present owner Exhibited: Berlin, Royal Academy, 1909, no. 90 C Property of a Private Collector, Ardsley, NY $8,000-12,000 See Illustration 20 Northern European School 17th Century Vanitas Still Life 13 Oil on panel 15 x 22 inches (38 x 56 cm) Unframed C $600-800 13 15 17 Dutch School Attributed to Giuseppe Valeriani Attributed to Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi 21 17th Century Venus and Adonis Figure Reclining in a Landscape Dutch School Orpheus Charming the Animals Stamped with unidentified collector’s mark (lr) Sepia ink and wash on paper 17th Century Oil on canvas Ink and wash on heavy paper 4 3/8 x 8 5/16 inches (10.6 x 21.1 cm) Portrait of a Gentleman Holding a Book 38 1/2 x 67 3/4 inches (98 x 172 cm) 6 1/2 x 7 3/4 inches (16.5 x 19.8 cm) Provenance: Oil on canvas C Provenance: Durlacher Brothers, New York Unframed $4,000-6,000 Fazio Collection, Geneva Purchased March 8, 1965, as by 60 1/4 x 47 1/4 inches (153 x 120 cm) 19 See Illustration Colnaghi, London Annibale Carracci The pages of the book held by the sitter C Estate of Barbara Anspach C The Eileen & Herbert C. Bernard contain a possible signature (illegible) and 14 $1,000-2,000 Collection the date 1618; a drawing of a skull and Cornelis van Poelenburgh $300-500 crossed bones; the Latin words despice 22 23 Dutch, 1586-1667 16 (look down on); prospice (watch); respice English School Circle of Lucas van Uden Diana and Callisto Attributed to Simone Brentana 18 (consider); and suspice (undertake) 17th Century Hunter and Game Oil on panel Coriolanus Persuaded by the Volscians Manner of Gillis Peeters arranged in a radiating pattern; and a Portrait of Sir Richard Bolton, Oil on panel 10 1/4 x 13 3/8 inches (26 x 34 cm) to Attack Rome Italianate Landscape with Cattle and reference to 1 Corinthians 15:36, Chancellor of Ireland 9 x 12 1/2 inches (22.8 x 31.8 cm) Unframed Oil on canvas Other Livestock beside a River a verse from Saint Paul’s discourse on Inscribed Riccardus Bolton Equne/ Dr. and Mrs. Oskar K. Cosla Dr. and Mrs. Oskar K. Cosla 45 5/8 x 57 1/4 inches (116.2 x 145.5 cm) Inscribed P. Peeters (ll) the Resurrection: You fool! What you sow Cancellarius Hib: and dated 1639 on a By descent in the family to the present owner By descent in the family to Unframed Oil on canvas laid to Masonite does not come to life unless it dies. banderole (ur) Private collection, New York the present owner Provenance: 19 1/2 x 23 1/4 inches (49.5 x 59 cm) C Oil on canvas C Estate of Claudia Cosla, New York Private collection, New York Said to have belonged to the collection of C $1,000-3,000 23 1/4 x 18 inches (59 x 45.7 cm) $1,000-2,000 C Estate of Claudia Cosla, New York a noble family in Verona $1,000-1,500 Sir Richard Bolton (1570?-1648) was a $4,000-6,000 Purchased in Italy, February 1994 by the lawyer from Staffordshire who, early in present owner the reign of James I, pursued a political Private collection, New York career in Ireland.