ENGLISH & CONTINENTAL FURNITURE, DECORATIVE ARTS & SILVER OLD MASTER PAINTINGS & DRAWINGS Wednesday, February 5, 2020 NEW YORK ENGLISH & CONTINENTAL FURNITURE & DECORATIVE ARTS & SILVER OLD MASTER PAINTINGS & DRAWINGS AUCTION Wednesday, February 5, 2020 at 10am EXHIBITION Saturday, February 1, 10am – 5pm Sunday, February 2, Noon – 5pm Monday, February 3, 11am – 6pm LOCATION Doyle 175 East 87th Street New York City 212-427-2730 www.Doyle.com Catalog: $25 INCLUDING PROPERTY CONTENTS FROM THE ESTATES OF Paintings 1-83 Otis and Fredericka Carney Silver & Silver Plate 84-155 The Nelson Doubleday, Jr. Collection Furniture & Decorative Arts 156-392 An Upper East Side Collector Carpets, Rugs & Tapestries 393-413 The Marian Sulzberger Heiskell and Andrew Heiskell Collection Virginia Strub Kelly Glossary I JoAnn E. Macbeth Conditions of Sale II A Park Avenue Lady Terms of Guarantee IV A Pennsylvania Collection Information on Sales & Use Tax V Percy Rivington and Evelyn Sloane Pyne Buying at Doyle VI Leonard and Elaine Silverstein, Bethesda, MD Selling at Doyle VIII Rosa Strygler Auction Schedule IX Jack Weisenhunt of Dallas and Laguna Beach Company Directory X Absentee Bid Form XII INCLUDING PROPERTY FROM A Beekman Place Apartment A Georgia Private Collector A New York Private Collector A Palm Beach Private Collection A Park Avenue Apartment A Private Collector, Greenwich, Connecticut A Private Collector, New York Susan Weber OLD MASTER PAINTINGS & DRAWINGS Lot 14 6 Flemish School 17th Century The Wisdom of Solomon Oil on canvas, arched top 76 1/2 x 45 inches (194.3 x 114.3 cm) C $2,000-4,000 7 Attributed to Daniel Mytens A Lady Wearing a Pearl Necklace Oil on panel 29 1/4 x 23 1/2 inches (74.3 x 59.7 cm) Provenance: Private collection, New York, since the 1950s By inheritance to the present owner 1 C $4,000-6,000 Venetian School 17th Century See Illustration The Baptism of Christ Oil on canvas 8 47 1/2 x 35 inches (120.5 x 89 cm) Attributed to Alexander Adriaenssen A Fishermaid with her Catch Provenance: Oil on canvas Private collection, United Kingdom 35 3/4 x 49 inches (90.9 x 124.5 cm) C C $7,000-12,000 $800-1,200 See Illustration See Illustration 9 Attributed to Alexander Adriaenssen Fisherman with his Catch Oil on canvas 35 5/8 x 49 inches (90.5 x 124.5 cm) C $800-1,200 10 7 Manner of the Master of the Magdalen Legend Mary Magdalene Holding an Oil Jar 1 Oil on panel 14 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches (36.8 x 26.7 cm) C $800-1,200 2 4 Attributed to Luca Cambiaso Follower of Francesco Albani 11 The Flagellation of Christ Bathsheba at her Bath After Theodoor Rombouts Bears unidentified collector’s stamp CC with coronet (Lugt 513) Oil on canvas El Charlatán Saca Muelas (The Tooth Brown ink and wash on paper 28 3/4 x 22 inches (73 x 55.9 cm) Extractor) 7 ½ x 5 3/16 inches (19 x 13.3 cm) C Oil on canvas $2,000-4,000 29 3/4 x 57 1/8 inches (75.5 x 145 cm) Provenance: The original version of this work is in the the The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Lester Francis Avnet, New York Museo del Prado, Madrid. 5 Exhibited: After Carlo Maratta Provenance: New York, American Federation of Arts, and traveling, Portrait of the Artist’s Daughter, the Painter and Poet Faustina Maratta The New York Academy of Medicine Old Master Drawings, May 1969-Dec. 1970, cat. no. 9 Oil on canvas (presented to the Academy by C 24 3/8 x 19 3/4 inches (62 x 50.2 cm) Dr. Hayes Martin, 1961) $800-1,200 The original version of this portrait is now in the Corsini Gallery in Rome. C Faustina Maratta (circa 1679-1745) was born in Rome, the natural $800-1,200 3 daughter of the artist Carlo Maratta, who saw to it that she received After Antonio Allegri, called Correggio a good education in painting, music and poetry. Well-known both for 12 Sleeping Venus, with Cupid and a Satyr (Jupiter and Antiope) her learning and her beauty as a young woman, she was attemptedly Oil on canvas Flemish School kidnapped by a local nobleman, but managed to escape, and her 17th/18th Century 38 x 24 1/4 inches (96.5 x 61.5 cm) would-be abductor was forced to flee to Naples and later to Spain. Floral Still Life in an Urn Ornamented The original of this work by Correggio is in the Musée du Louvre, Paris. Later, in 1705, she married the poet Giambattista Felice Zappi, and the with Dolphins C couple’s house in Rome became the meeting place of a distinguished Oil on panel $800-1,200 literary circle. 35 1/2 x 30 3/4 inches (90.2 x 78.2 cm) C C $800-1,200 $1,500-2,500 8 6 DOYLE • FEBRUARY 5, 2020 • NEW YORK VIEW THE FULLY ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE AND BID ONLINE AT DOYLE.COM 7 13 16 20 Circle of Jusepe Ribera Continental School Jan Looten 17th Century 18th/19th Century Dutch, 1617/18-1681 Saint Jerome in his Study The Finding of Moses and A Mountainous Landscape Oil on canvas Moses Striking the Rock: Two with Hunters 43 3/4 x 32 1/2 inches Each oil on canvas Signed J Looten and dated 1649 (111.2 x 82.6 cm) Each appromiately (on a rock, lc) C 40 x 50 1/4 inches Oil on canvas $8,000-12,000 (101.7 x 127.6 cm) 44 1/4 x 57 5/8 inches See Illustration C (112.5 by 146.5 cm) $1,000-3,000 Provenance: 14 Pierard de Valenciennes Spanish School 17 [Sale] Edgard Fievez, Brussels, 17th/Early 18th Century Manner of Sir Anthony van Dyck May 29, 1899, lot 68 (bt. Legrand) An Allegory of Autumn Three Boys with their Pets [Sale] Rasmussen, Copenhagen, Oil on canvas Signed with initials AL/pinxt Feb. 11, 1969, lot 237 35 1/2 x 57 3/8 inches and dated 1672 (ll) [Sale] Christie’s, London, (90.2 x 145.7 cm) Oil on canvas March 29, 1974, lot 16 C 34 1/4 x 44 inches Acquired at the above sale $5,000-8,000 (87 x 111.9 cm) Galerie Sanct Lucas, Vienna, 1974-75 See Illustration C Private collection, Madrid $2,000-3,000 Richard L. Feigen & Co., New York 15 We are grateful to Marijke C. de Kinkelder 18 Italian School of the RKD in The Hague for having 17th/18th Century English School confirmed Looten’s authorship of The Adoration of the Magi 17th Century this painting. and The Adoration of the Portrait of Oliver Cromwell C Shepherds: A Pair Oil on canvas $6,000-8,000 Each oil on canvas mounted 19 3/4 x 16 inches See Illustration on panel, ovoid (50.3 x 40.7 cm) Each 12 1/4 x 11 1/4 inches C (31 x 28.5 cm) $1,000-2,000 C 20 $1,500-3,000 19 Attributed to José Maria Vasquez Portrait of a Young Girl 21 23 Holding a Rose Attributed to Giuseppe Recco French School Inscribed José Maria Vasquez/ Still Life of Roses, Tulips and 17th/18th Century pintor on the reverse Other Flowers on a Ledge Still Life of Flowers and Fruit Oil on canvas Oil on canvas Remnants of a signature (ll) 35 x 25 1/2 inches 25 x 19 3/4 inches Oil on canvas (89 x 64.8 cm) 13 (64.2 x 50.2 cm) 34 1/4 x 47 1/2 inches Unframed (87 x 120.7 cm) C This work may have been Unframed $1,500-2,500 intended as a floral Allegory of C Summer, with flowers associated $1,500-3,500 with that time of year. C $3,000-5,000 24 See Illustration Italian School 17th/18th century Vases of Flowers on Rock 22 Ledges: A Pair Attributed to Giusseppe Recco Each oil on canvas Still Life of Passion Flowers, Each 15 x 17 3/4 inches Dogwood and Other Blooms on (38.1 x 145.1 cm) a Ledge C Oil on canvas $2,000-3,000 25 1/4 x 19 3/4 inches (64.2 x 50.2 cm) 25 This work was possibly intended French School as a floral Allegory of Spring, 19th Century with flowers associated with the Flowers in a Vase on a Ledge Easter season. Oil on canvas C 18 x 15 inches (45.7 x 38.1 cm) $3,000-5,000 C $600-800 14 21 8 DOYLE • FEBRUARY 5, 2020 • NEW YORK VIEW THE FULLY ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE AND BID ONLINE AT DOYLE.COM 9 26 32 Nicola Grassi Pietro Fabris Italian, 1682-1748 Anglo-Italian, active 1756-1804 Jacob Lifting the Stone from the Well The Amorous Huntsman Oil on canvas Oil on canvas 38 x 51 1/8 inches (96.5 x 129.9 cm) 16 x 13 inches (40.6 x 33.5 cm) The authenticity of this work has been The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by Professor Lino Moretti on the confirmed by Professor Nicola Spinosa from basis of photographs. firsthand examination. The unusual incident shown here is from Provenance: Genesis 29:9, in which Jacob, fleeing the Private collection wrath of his brother Esau, has arrived in [Sale] Sotheby’s London, July 10, 2008, lot 260 Paddan-Aram, the country of his uncle Laban.