ENGLISH & CONTINENTAL FURNITURE & DECORATIVE ARTS OLD MASTER PAINTINGS & DRAWINGS Wednesday, May 22, 2019 NEW YORK ENGLISH & CONTINENTAL FURNITURE & DECORATIVE ARTS OLD MASTER PAINTINGS & DRAWINGS AUCTION Tuesday, May 22, 2019 at 10am EXHIBITION Saturday, May 18, 10am – 5pm Sunday, May 19, Noon – 5pm Monday, May 20, 10am – 6pm LOCATION Doyle 175 East 87th Street New York City 212-427-2730 www.Doyle.com OLD MASTER PAINTINGS & DRAWINGS INCLUDING PROPERTY CONTENTS FROM THE ESTATES OF Paintings 1-73 A Prominent Connecticut Estate Silver 74-143 James Chip Dale Furniture & Decorative Arts 144-298 David Follett Carpets & Rugs 386-413 Elizabeth H. Fuller Arleen S. Gamza Glossary I A Gentleman, Park Avenue and Conditions of Sale II Southampton, New York Terms of Guarantee IV Barbara Grodd Information on Sales & Use Tax V Henry Hives Buying at Doyle VI Alfred F. Hubay Selling at Doyle VIII Mary Jane Kenny to be Sold to Benefit Auction Schedule IX the Bonaventura Devine Foundation Company Directory X A Lady Absentee Bid Form XII David E. Levy Walter Mehr A Private New Jersey Estate Marianne Schaller Joan Harmon Van Metre, The Plains, VA A Washington DC Lady INCLUDING PROPERTY FROM A Beekman Place Apartment A Collector A Connecticut Private Collection Property to be Sold for the Benefit of the Philanthropic Programs of the Heckscher Foundation for Children A Private Monarch Beach, CA Collector Two New York Gentlemen A Palm Beach Collector A Red Bank, New Jersey Private Collector The Rhinelander Stewart Family A Collection on Rittenhouse Square Lot 10 1 7 North Italian School Netherlandish School 16th/17th Century 16th Century The Finding of Moses The Admonishment of Time, ca. 1580 Oil on canvas Inscribed on a placard carried by 47 1/4 x 59 inches (120 x 149.9 cm) a flying Cupid: Luxuries praedulce C malu[m] cui tempus et error accelellra $5,000-8,000 [sic, i.e., accelerant] fatum multos See Illustration imexutt [sic, i.e., inexuit] hamis merraque [sic, i.e. membraque] Circaeis effeminat 2 acrius herbis (Carnal pleasure, that Attributed to Orazio Vecellio delicious evil, whose dire outcome Abraham and Isaac time and error bring on more quickly, Oil on canvas snares many with its hooks, sapping 45 3/4 x 57 inches (116.2 x 144.8 cm) the energy of the body more ruinously C than the herbs of Circe). $4,000-6,000 Oil on canvas 63 3/8 x 44 3/8 inches (161 x 112.7 cm) See Illustration Provenance: 3 [Sale] Christie’s New York, October 5, 1995. After Raphael (Raffaele Sanzio da Urbino) lot 80 (as Jacob de Backer) 16th Century With Jack Kilgore & Company, The School of Athens (detail of lower left) New York, by 1997 Gray wash over black chalk on two joined Private collection sheets of brown paper [Sale] Sotheby’s New York, June 6, 2012, 14 3/4 x 15 1/2 inches (37.5 x 39.5 cm) lot 17 (as Attributed to Jacob de Backer) Private collection Provenance: Private collection The Latin text on the placard, with some edits and misspellings, is derived This portion of the composition of Raphael’s from the Roman poet Claudian’s painting shows (lower register, from left) Consulship of Stilicho. II, 132ff. the philosophers Epicurus (wearing a wreath), 1 Boëthius (left foreground, leaning forward), This unusual subject presents Averroës (wearing a turban), and, seated an apparently unprecedented in the foreground and writing in a book, personification of Father Time. Pythagoras (thought to be a portrait of Here he is shown not as the traditional the architect Donato Bramante). irascible graybeard with a scythe, Standing to his right are (possibly) but as a robust man in midlife crowned Hypatia and Parmenides. The identificaton with a garland of fruit. of other figures is less certain. That he represents Time is confirmed C by an engraving after this painting by $2,000-4,000 Hieronymus Wierix published around 1610-1615, which shows him with 4 his traditional scythe. Perhaps Wierix Italian School wanted to be sure that this figure was 17th Century correctly understood by viewers who Saint Philomena might not otherwise have done so. Oil on canvas In this painting, both of Time’s roles 21 1/4 x 17 inches (54 x 43.2 cm) as the angry deliverer of punishment Unframed and the impassive Revealer of Truth C Estate of Walter Mehr have been replaced by a kindly, 7 $800-1,200 fatherly presence, admonishing the young couple to lead a virtuous life. 5 In this guise, he holds up a looking French School glass to confront the lovers with 19th Century reflections of their folly, thus drawing 8 9 The Duel on various Renaissance emblematic Flemish School Flemish School Oil on panel meanings associated with mirrors, Late 16th/Early 17th Century 17th/18th Century 21 x 31 3/8 inches including Prudence — clearly being Madonna and Child with a Basket of Fruit The Deposition from the Cross • exhorted here — and Vanity. Watercolor and gouache over black chalk Oil on panel, arched top $600-900 C on paper, ovoid 17 x 12 1/4 inches (43 x 31 cm) $6,000-10,000 3 1/4 x 2 5/8 inches (8.3 x 6.7 cm) Unframed 6 See Illustration C Property from the Estate of C Follower of Sir Anthony Van Dyck Mary Jane Kenny to be Sold to Benefit the $600-800 Bonaventura Devine Foundation 2 The Virgin and Child Oil on canvas $700-1,000 14 1/4 x 10 1/2 inches (36.2 x 26.7 cm) Unframed C $2,000-3,000 6 DOYLE • MAY 22, 2019 • NEW YORK VIEW THE FULLY ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE AND BID ONLINE AT DOYLE.COM 7 11 Attributed to Philip van Dyck Portrait of a Lady said to be the Countess of Northumberland Oil on canvas 23 3/4 x 19 3/4 inches (60 x 50.3 cm) Provenance: Private collection, New York By inheritance to the present owner C $1,000-3,000 12 Flemish School 17th Century Portrait of a Man Holding a Letter Oil on copper 12 3/16 x 9 5/8 inches (31 x 24.3 cm) C 14 $400-600 13 Flemish School 17th Century Susannah and the Elders Inscribed F.B.F. (ll) Black and red chalk with pastel on oatmeal paper 12 3/4 x 16 7/8 inches (32.5 x 42.8 cm) Unframed C $600-800 14 Jacques Callot French, 1592-1635 Caricature of a Man Walking Rapidly Ink on paper 2 1/8 x 3 1/4 inches (5.5 x 8.3 cm) C Property of Two New York Gentlemen $2,000-3,000 10 See Illustration 15 10 Roman School Claude Vignon 17th Century Paris Introducing Helen to his Parents, King Priam and Portrait of a Cleric Holding a Prayer Book Queen Hecuba of Troy Inscribed indistinctly Can . (ur) Oil on canvas Oil on canvas 51 x 38 inches (129.6 x 96.5 cm) 37 1/8 x 30 1/8 inches (94.4 x 76.5 cm) Provenance: Provenance: [Sale] Galliera, Paris, November 10, 1967, lot 58 Domenico Silvestri, Rome [Sale] Christie’s London, July 15, 1970, lot 150 Purchased in 1928 by Giuseppe di Alessandro Rossetto [Sale] Sotheby’s London, June 12, 1981, lot l34 of Rome and later, New York Private collection, New York By descent in the family to the present owner [Sale] Christie’s, NY, March 26, 1982, lot 3 C Private collection, New York $2,000-4,000 See Illustration Literature: Paola Pacht Bassani, Claude Vignon, 1593-1670 (Paris, 1992), pp. 313-14, no. 219, illus. C $20,000-40,000 See Illustration 15 8 DOYLE • MAY 22, 2019 • NEW YORK VIEW THE FULLY ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE AND BID ONLINE AT DOYLE.COM 9 JEAN-BERNARD 16 Jean-Bernard Restout French, 1732-1797 The Pleasures of Anacreon Oil on canvas 77 1/4 x 98 1/2 inches (196.3 x 250.2 cm) Provenance: Thought to have remained in the artist’s possession until his death With Didier Aaron, Paris, 1994-95 [Sale] Sotheby’s New York, June 6, 2012, lot 64 Exhibited: Paris, Salon, 1765 (not included in the Livret) Paris, Salon, 1767, no. 149 Paris, Salon, 1791, no. 250 Literature: F. Dowley, “Anacreon and Le Prince,” The Register of the Museum of Art, The University of Kansas at Lawrence, t. II, no. 6, June 1961, pp. 16-17 and 23, notes 47, 48 and 50 S. Sawicka, “Un dessin de Jean-Bernard Restout pour une peinture disparue,” Gazette des Beaux-Arts, VIème per. (LXXII), 1968, pp. 191-94 Marc Sandoz, “‘Les plaisirs d’Anacréon’ de Jean-Bernard Restout,” Bulletin du Musée National de Varsovie, no. 1 (1970), pp. 23-28 Jean Adhémar and Jean Seznec, eds., Diderot Salons, Vol. II, 1765, 2nd edition, Oxford 1979, pp. 204-5; Jean Adhémar and Jean Seznec, eds., Diderot Salons, Vol. III, 1767, 2nd ed., Oxford 1983, pp. 284-85; Else Marie Bukdahl and Annette Lorenceau, Diderot, Salon de 1765, Paris, 1984, pp. 271-75; Didier Aaron, Catalogue, Paris, London, New York, 1994/95, cat. no. 10, reproduced C. E. Foster, “Jean-Bernard Restout’s ‘Sleep—Figure Study’: Painting and Drawing from Life at the French Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture,” in Cleveland Studies in the History of Art, Vol. 3, 1998, pp. 51-53, detail reproduced, fig. 10 C. Gouzi, Jean Restout 1692-1768, peintre d’histoire à Paris (Paris, 2000), p. 169 The works of the ancient Greek lyric poet Anacreon (ca. 582-ca. 485 BC) enjoyed immense popularity among educated people throughout Europe in the 18th century.