Jean-Antoine Watteau
A Portrait Of Nicolas Vleughels, Seated And Looking Down To The Left, Tuning His Violin
Estimate: 120.000 - 180.000 USD
Price realised: 317.000 USD
Price realised: 317.000 USD
Description
with inscription 'Vateau' (partly cut)
red, black and white chalk on light brown paper
9 5/8 x 7½ in. (24.5 x 18.9 cm.)
Anon. sale; Paris, 2 April 1909, lot 35 (1,850 francs to Nagelmaker). | With Richard Owen, Paris, from whom purchased in August 1927 by | John Nicholas Brown, Providence, Rhode Island.
red, black and white chalk on light brown paper
9 5/8 x 7½ in. (24.5 x 18.9 cm.)
Anon. sale; Paris, 2 April 1909, lot 35 (1,850 francs to Nagelmaker). | With Richard Owen, Paris, from whom purchased in August 1927 by | John Nicholas Brown, Providence, Rhode Island.
Upper estimate price exceeded by 76 %.
This artwork by Jean-Antoine Watteau achieved an unexpectedly high price at Christies in New York in January 2016. In the Old Master and British Drawings auction, the work A Portrait Of Nicolas Vleughels, Seated And Looking Down To The Left, Tuning His Violin sold for USD 317,000.00 (€ 292,651.40) - well above the upper estimate of USD 180,000.00. Of course, this price has nothing to do with the top prices that other works by Jean-Antoine Watteau achieve. The highest price we have observed so far was reached by the work La Surprise: A couple embracing while a figure dressed as Mezzetin tunes a guitar in July 2008 with an auction result of GBP 12,361,250.00 (€ 15,705,107.29).
Oberer Schätzpreis um 76 % übertroffen
Dieses Kunstwerk von Jean-Antoine Watteau erzielte im Januar 2016 bei Christies in New York einen unerwartet hohen Preis. In der Auktion Old Master and British Drawings wurde die Arbeit A Portrait Of Nicolas Vleughels, Seated And Looking Down To The Left, Tuning His Violin für USD 317.000,00 (€ 292.651,40) versteigert – und damit weit über dem oberen Schätzpreis von USD 180.000,00. Dieser Preis hat freilich nichts mit den Spitzenpreisen zu tun, die andere Arbeiten von Jean-Antoine Watteau erzielen. Den höchsten von uns bisher beobachteten Preis erreichte die Arbeit La Surprise: A couple embracing while a figure dressed as Mezzetin tunes a guitar im Juli 2008 mit einem Auktionsergebnis von GBP 12.361.250,00 (€ 15.705.107,29).
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