Sotheby’s New York – Old Master Paintings

April 17th, 2012 by

This season’s Old Master Paintings sale comprises a superb selection of works from schools throughout Europe.  Highlighting the June auction is an exquisite Flemish Still Life with a Terrestrial Globe, a Book, Shells, a Snake and Butterflies by Carstian Luyckx, an Adoration of the Shepherds from the School of Ercole de’ Roberti, possibly Guglielmo Giraldi, and an impressive and richly decorative Classical Garden Landscape with Mallard, a Golden Eagle and other Wildfowl in Flight by Melchior d’Hondecoeter.