ENGLISH & CONTINENTAL FURNITURE & DECORATIVE ARTS OLD MASTER PAINTINGS & DRAWINGS Wednesday, May 23, 2018 NEW YORK ENGLISH & CONTINENTAL FURNITURE & DECORATIVE ARTS OLD MASTER PAINTINGS & DRAWINGS INCLUDING THE ESTATE OF WENDY VANDERBILT LEHMAN, PROPERTY FROM ALFRED G. VANDERBILT AND THE ESTATES OF LILI & NORMAN ISRAEL AUCTION Wednesday, May 23, 2018 at 10am EXHIBITION Saturday, May 19, 10am – 5pm Sunday, May 20, Noon – 5pm Monday, May 21, 10am – 6pm LOCATION Doyle 175 East 87th Street New York City 212-427-2730 www.Doyle.com Catalogue: $35 OLD MASTER PAINTINGS & DRAWINGS INCLUDING PROPERTY CONTENTS FROM THE ESTATES OF Paintings 1-90 Anne Marie Aberbach Property from the Estate of A Connecticut Collector Wendy Vanderbilt Lehrman 91-271 Albert Bruce Connor Property from Alfred G. Vandebilt 272-276 The Nelson Doubleday, Jr. Collection Furniture & Decorations 376-553 Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. Silver & Silver Plate 376-297 Leo Hershkowitz Furniture & Decorations 298-434 Lili Israel Property from the Estate of Norman Israel Lili & Norman Israel 48-54, 435-530 Wendy Vanderbilt Lehman Carpets & Rugs 531-553 Hermine Leventhal A Long Island Estate A Long Island Private Estate Robert Makla, New York, New York Laura Montalban Elsie Shallon Elinor Steinhart Stephen Stempler Glossary I Conditions of Sale II INCLUDING PROPERTY FROM Terms of Guarantee IV Formerly in the inventory of Information on Sales & Use Tax V Berry-Hill Galleries, New York Buying at Doyle VI A Private Collector Selling at Doyle VIII A Private New Jersey Collector Auction Schedule IX The Rhinelander Stewart Family Company Directory X Alfred G. Vanderbilt Absentee Bid Form XII The Collection of Bennett and Judie Weinstock Lot 63 1 7 8 1 4 6 7 9 11 Manner of 15th-Century Northern Italy Follower of Carlo Maratta After Sir Peter Paul Rubens Ottavio Leoni Flemish School European School Saint Dominic Releasing a Knight from The Holy Family The Abduction of the Daughters of Leucippus Italian, 1578-1605 17th Century 19th/20th Century Prison Oil on canvas Oil on canvas Portrait of Donna Liza Aldobrandini A Lady Wearing a Lace Millstone Ruff Singeries: Two Fresco mounted on board 29 x 36 inches (73.6 x 92 cm) 40 x 30 inches (101.5 x 76.2 cm) Inscribed dona liza aldobrandina in brown Oil on panel, within a painted stone oval frame Gouache on paper laid to board 30 x 24 inches (76.2 x 61 cm) C Provenance: ink along the lower edge; inscribed Rig 25 1/2 x 18 3/4 inches (64.7 x 47.6 cm) Each 9 x 11 1/4 inches (23 x 28.5 cm) C Property of a Private Collector $1,000-3,000 Private collection, Connecticut and bearing a collector’s mark of a capital C C Estate of Stephen Stempler $1,000-3,000 D surmounted by a coronet (similar to the $1,000-1,500 $800-1,500 See Illustration The original of this work, painted in 1618, Duke of Devonshire mark), stamped in blue (lr) 5 is in the Alte Pinakothek, Munich. After Antonio Allegri da Correggio Black chalk on paper 10 12 The abduction of Hilaeira and Phoebe, 8 3/8 x 5 3/4 inches (21.3 x 14.6 cm) 2 The Madonna and Child with a Rabbit (La the daughters of King Leucippus of Sparta Flemish School Genoese School Italian School Zingarella) Provenance: 17th Century 17th Century by the twins Castor and Pollux, is described Le Marquis de Valore 17th Century Oil on canvas both by the Hellenistic poet Theocratis and Allegory of the Air (The Goddess Iris with Penitent Magdalene John the Baptist Embracing the Agnus Dei, 21 1/4 x 16 3/4 inches (51.5 x 42.5 cm) Alfred Beurdeley (1808-1882) a Gathering of Birds) Oil on canvas the Roman poet Ovid. The young women with Two Angels E. and A. Silberman Galleries, New York Oil on canvas 30 1/4 x 26 3/8 inches (77 x 67 cm) The traditonal title “Zingarella” for this had been betrothed to two other men, Oil on copper, tondo Richard Goetz, New York (1874-1954) 22 x 35 inches (56 x 89 cm) Unframed compositon is owed to the Virgin’s but the twins were determined to marry Diameter: 7 inches (17.8 cm) By inheritance to his nephew, Provenance: C costume, which was once thought to be them instead. Despite the violence of this Hans Heller, New York C scene as imaged by Rubens, the story has Private collection, Connecticut $800-1,200 $800-1,200 that of a gypsy girl (zingarella). She is Thence to his son, Peter Heller, New York shown seated on the ground in the classic an almost fairytale ending: the two couples Thence by inheritance to the present owner Allegories of the Four Elements of Earth, pose of a Madonna of Humility, derived were soon married, had exemplary children C Air, Fire and Water were a favorite subject 3 from a moment of rest on the flight to and lived “happily ever after.” $5,000-7,000 in 16th- and 17th-century Flanders, where Italian School Egypt. The original composition, now in C See Illustration well-educated patrons loved to exhibit their 19th/20th Century the Galleria Nazionale di Capodimonte in $800-1,200 erudition. Each element was commonly Amorini with Baskets of Flowers: Two Naples, was finished by Correggio 8 personified by a mythological figure, such Oil and gold paint on panel circa 1515/17. Flemish School as Neptune for Water, Vulcan for Fire, or, Each 10 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches (26.7 x 19 cm) C 17th Century as here, Iris, goddess of the rainbow, for Air. C Estate of Lili Israel $600-800 Here the air is further represented not only $500-700 The Mocking of Christ Oil on panel by Iris’s rainbow, but by storm clouds and a 45 x 32 1/2 inches (114.4 x 82.5 cm) variety of birds. This painting was probably Provenance: one of a series of the Elements, presumably The Collection of Nicholas Windisch-Graetz intended for a library or sitting room. C C $2,000-5,000 $2,000-4,000 See Illustration 6 DOYLE • MAY 23, 2018 • NEW YORK VIEW THE FULLY ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE AND BID ONLINE AT DOYLE.COM 7 13 19 Roman School Evert van Aelst 17th/18th Century Dutch, 1602-1657 Noli me Tangere (Christ in the Garden) Still Life with Partridge Oil on canvas Oil on canvas 42 7/8 x 37 inches (109 x 94 cm) 21 1/2 x 18 1/4 inches (54.6 x 46.5 cm) Provenance: The words Noli me tangere (“Do not touch me” or more Dominion Gallery, Montreal accurately “Do not approach me”) are a quotation from Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach collection, the Latin Vulgate version of John 20:19. They are the first Villa Huegel, Essen, Germany words uttered by the risen Christ to Mary Magdalene at Waldtraut von Bolhen und Halbach the moment shown here, when she first recognizes him By descent in the family to the present owner after the Resurrection. The sentence continues “. for I am C not yet ascended to my Father; but go to my brethren, $2,000-3,000 and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father and your See Illustration Father; and to my God and your God.” Whatever their original significance, the words have given rise to a number of interpretations over the centuries regarding 20 the nature of the resurrected Christ and the period Jan Vermeer van Haarlem the Elder between Christ’s Resurrection and Ascension. Dutch, 1628-1691 C Landscape with a Walled Estate and a Church $3,000-5,000 Oil on panel See Illustration 13 1/4 x 18 1/2 inches (33.6 x 47 cm) Provenance: Berry-Hill Galleries, New York 14 C A. Zanini $2,000-4,000 Italian, 20th Century See Illustration The Bacino San Marco and The Rialto Bridge: Two Each signed A. Zanini (lr) Each oil on canvas laid to thin board 21 Each 17 x 22 7/8 inches (43 x 58 cm) Follower of Jan Fyt C A Falcon Attacking a Hare $1,500-2,500 Oil on canvas See Illustrations 41 1/4 x 53 1/2 inches (104.8 x 136 cm) C 13 $2,500-3,500 15 Nicholas Briganti Italian, 1861-1944 22 19 The Grand Canal, Venice Follower of Meindert Hobbema Signed N. Briganti (lr) Landscape with Travelers on a Road near a Oil on canvas Cottage, a Church in the Distance 28 x 40 inches (71 x 101.6 cm) Oil on canvas C 27 x 33 inches (68.5 x 83.8 cm) $1,000-3,000 Unframed C $1,000-3,000 16 Italian School 19th Century 23 Still Life with a Vase, Flowers and Fruit in a Landscape Follower of Rembrandt van Rijn Oil on canvas Portrait of a Man 24 3/4 x 41 1/8 inches (63 x 104.5 cm) Oil on paper laid to panel C Estate of Norman Israel 15 1/2 x 10 7/8 inches (39.5 x 27.7 cm) $1,500-3,000 C $600-800 17 24 14 Pompeo Massani Italian, 1850-1920 Follower of Allaert van Everdingen The Critic A Scandinavian Landscape with Signed P. Massani (lr) a Castle above a Waterfall Oil on canvas Oil on panel 18 x 14 1/8 inches (45.8 x 36 cm) 15 1/4 x 12 3/4 inches (38.7 x 32.5 cm) C C $1,200-1,800 $1,000-2,000 18 20 Italian School 19th/20th Century Nocturne: The Molo and the Bacino San Marco, Venice Oil on canvas 52 1/2 x 73 inches (133.4 x 185.5 cm) C $1,500-2,500 8 DOYLE • MAY 23, 2018 • NEW YORK VIEW THE FULLY ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE AND BID ONLINE AT DOYLE.COM 9 25 31 25 28 31 Attributed to Sir Godfrey Kneller Attributed to William Owen, R.