Lot 67. Adriaen Coorte MIDDELBURG (?) 1660 (?) – AFTER 1707 WILD STRAWBERRIES ON A LEDGE
signed and dated lower left: A Coorte/1704
oil on paper, laid down on panel: 5 3/8 by 6 1/2 in.; 13.5 by 16.5 cm.
Estimate: $800,000-1,200,000.
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There are numerous gems in Sotheby’s April 22 single owner sale of mostly 17th Dutch and Flemish paintings from the Weldon Collection. According to a Sotheby’s press announcement, the late Henry and June “Jimmy” Weldon built their collection over a period of several decades starting in the 1950s with the purchase of an early Willem van Aelst painting, Peaches, a Plum, and Grapes on a Ledge. They paid $16 dollars for it at a small auction in New York in 1951, today it’s estimated at $60,000-80,000. The collection also includes works by Balthasar Van der Ast, Rachel Ruysch, Salomon van Ruysdael, Hendrick Avercamp and a joint work by Peter Paul Rubens and Jan Breughel the Younger. In a videotaped interview, George Wachter, Sotheby’s Co-Chairman, Old Master Paintings, discusses the Weldons and specific works, such as the Coorte still life (above) and the joint Rubens/Breughel the Younger painting (below).
One of the remarkable aspects of the collection is the diminutive size of several works, which nevertheless have great wall power. Here’s a sampling:
Lot 6. Hendrick Avercamp AMSTERDAM 1585 – 1634 KAMPEN
A WINTER SCENE WITH A WINDMILL AND FIGURES ON A FROZEN RIVER
signed with the monogram lower left: HA (in ligature)
oil on panel: 9 1/4 by 12 1/4 in.; 23.5 by 31.2 cm.
Estimate: $1-1.5 million
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Lot 16. Adriaen Jansz. van Ostade HAARLEM 1610 – 1685
A MAN WITH PINCE-NEZ, READING NOTICES (THE SENSE OF SIGHT)
signed and dated lower left: AvOstade 16 (the last two digits of the date obscured)
oil on panel: 6 1/8 by 4 5/16 in.; 15.5 by 11 cm.
Estimate: $400,000-600,000.
![Lot 27. Jan Brueghel the Elder BRUSSELS 1568 - 1625 ANTWERP WOODLAND ROAD WITH WAGON AND TRAVELERS signed and dated lower left: BRVEGHE[L]/160(9?) oil on copper, mounted on panel 3 5/8 by 5 7/8 in.; 9.2 by 14.9 cm. Estimate: $500,000-700,000. Click on image to enlarge.](http://nordonart.files.wordpress.com/2015/04/27.jpg?w=600&h=368)
Lot 27. Jan Brueghel the Elder BRUSSELS 1568 – 1625 ANTWERP WOODLAND ROAD WITH WAGON AND TRAVELERS
signed and dated lower left: BRVEGHE[L]/160(9?)
oil on copper, mounted on panel: 3 5/8 by 5 7/8 in.; 9.2 by 14.9 cm.
Estimate: $500,000-700,000.
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Lot 30. Sir Peter Paul Rubens Jan Breughel the Younger Siegen 1577 – 1640 Antwerp Antwerp 1601 – 1678
LANDSCAPE WITH PAN AND SYRINX
the reverse of the panel bears the brand of the Antwerp panel-makers’ guild and the maker’s mark of Michiel Vriendt (MV in monogram)
oil on panel: 23 by 37 1/4 in.; 58.2 by 94.6 cm.
Estimate: $3-5 million.
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Lot 57. Gerrit Dou LEIDEN 1613-1675 PORTRAIT OF A SCHOLAR
signed middle left: G. Dou
oil on oval panel: 9 1/2 by 7 3/4 in.; 24.1 x 19.7 cm.
Estimate: $500,000-700,000.
Lot 71. Ambrosius Bosschaert the Elder ANTWERP 1573 – 1621 THE HAGUE
STILL LIFE OF FLOWERS IN A WAN-LI VASE, INCLUDING TULIPS, NARCISSI, A SWEET-BRIAR, LIVER-LEAF, CYCLAMEN, WILD PANSY AND A ROSE, WITH A DRAGONFLY, BUMBLEBEE AND CATERPILLAR
signed on the ledge, lower left corner: AB (in ligature)
oil on copper: 6 1/4 by 4 1/2 in.; 15.6 by 11.3 cm.
Estimate: $800,000-1,200.000.
