ID:2282

Oil on canvas, circle of Charles-Dominique-Joseph Eisen (Valenciennes 1720-1778 Brussels), a grisaille, Amours at play. Relined.

H 18 in, W 31 in (46 cm by 79 cm)

Most likely an overdoor decoration. The preference for grisaille for this sort of painting was well-established by the mid-18th century.

ID:2189

Attributed to Louis-Nicolas van Blarenbergh (Lille 1716-1794 Fontainebleau), Bucolic landscape, gouache. Minor oxidation upper right.

6 by 8 inches (15 by 20 cm)

The Blarenbergh dynasty are best known for miniatures and densely wrought scenes of battle.

ID:1963

Attributed to Jean-Baptiste Forest (Paris 1635 – 1712), oil on canvas, unframed, Italian Landscape with Figures on a Bridge, bearing a signature lower right.

59.5 by 58 cm (23 3/8 by 22 7/8 in.)

ID:2306

Attributed to Thomas de Keyser (Amsterdam 1596 - 1667), group portrait of three children in the guise of Cupid and two angels, oil on an oak panel. Restorations, Dutch-style frame.

30 by 23 cm (11 ¾ by 9 inches)

ID:2314

Attributed to Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer (Lille 1636 – 1699 London), Still life of variegated carnations and other flowers on a ledge, oil on relined canvas in a carved giltwood frame.

13 by 16 ¼ inches (33 by 41.3 cm).

Provenance: Anonymous sale, Sotheby’s New York, 7 April 1989, lot 148.

ID:2352

Oil on canvas, Sainte Cecilia playing an organ with two angels, French school of the end of the 17th c., in a carved and gilded period frame.

21 ½ by 16 ¼ inches (54.5 by 41.3 cm)

ID:2370

Attributed to Filippo de Angeli, called Filippo Napoletano (Naples 1587 – 1629 Rome), The baptism of Christ, oil on an oval panel, now reinforced, in a gilded wood and gesso frame, early 1620’s.

27 by 36.5 cm. (10 ½ by 14 ½ in.)

Provenance: Anonymous sale, Dorotheum (Vienna) 13 October, 2010, lot 602, est $13,500/$17,000;

Anonymous sale, Stahl Auktionshaus (Hamburg) 19 February 2011, lot 168

Dr. Francesca Baldassari, specialist in 17th century Florentine painting, identified the author of this painting, dating it as well.

ID:2374

Entourage of Placido Costanzi (Rome 1702 – 1759), Christ and the Samaritan woman, oil on canvas, with an illegible annotation on the back, framed.

32 by 25.5 cm (12 ½ by 10 in.)

With variations in the landscape, in some details of the Christ, and in the clothing of the Samaritan, our painting repeats a round painting on copper (diameter 25 cm) by Placido Costanzi realized as one of a pair with a Noli me tangere.

ID:2348

Hans Jurriaensz. Van Baden (Baden-Baden 1604-1677), Christ chasing the money-changers from the temple, oil on an unreinforced oak panel composed of two boards visible through an oval window, signed lower left JvanBaden. Framed.

15 ¾ by 21 ¼ inches (40 by 54 cm)

Restorations to the panel.

Staffage painted over van Baden’s view of the church interior by another hand.