Learning to Love Old Masters Paintings—The Selfies of Their Day Inline

January 20, 2017

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Sotheby’s Master Paintings Sculpture sales will be held on January 25 and 26. Milanese bobbin lace, circa 1665–1680; 18th-century copper-gold fringe and silver fringe; 17th-century silver scalloped lace, Baroque gold Vermeer metallic lace, from the Collection of Jill Lasersohn; Portrait of Jacques de Goyon III (1644–1725), Sire De Matignon, Comte De Thorigny, Lieutenant Général Des Armées, by Henri Gascars [Lot 219]
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Floral silk casaquin women’s jacket, circa 1740–1750; fichu, late 18th century; Portrait of a Woman Washing Clothes, Possibly Maria, Countess of Coventry, by Henry Robert Morland [Lot 226]

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Mid-17th-century French game purse; playing cards, coins, and letters, from the Collection of Jill Lasersohn; Oushak carpet, late 15th to early 16th century, from Sotheby’s rug department
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Vanitas still life, North Italian School, second half of the 17th century [Lot 35]
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Silk floral brocade, circa 1740; set of Venetian campanoni d’ori buttons, early 18th century, from the Collection of Jill Lasersohn

Floral silk casaquin women’s jacket, circa 1740–1750; fichu, late 18th century; Portrait of a Woman Washing Clothes, Possibly Maria, Countess of Coventry, by Henry Robert Morland [Lot 226]