NEW YORK, NY.- Christie’s announces Old Master & British Drawings Including Works from the Collection of Jean Bonna will take place on January 28 in New York. The auction offers a wide variety of works on paper covering over five hundred years from approximately 1480 to the mid-19th Century. Comprised of 129 lots, with many fresh to the market works from distinguished collections, the auction presents an opportunity to acquire some of the most celebrated and dramatic images of western art, with estimates ranging from $2,000 to $800,000.

Leading the sale are works by two great Venetian artists: Giovanni Battista Tiepolo’s rare Study for three donkeys from the collection of the late Brooke Astor (estimate: $250,000-350,000), and Canaletto’s exceptionally large View of the South front of Warwick Castle (estimate: $800,000-1,200,000). Additional highlights from the Italian section are masterpieces of the High Renaissance by Perugino, Luca Signorelli, Parmigianino, and exceptional Baroque drawings by Annibale Carracci, Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Elisabetta Sirani.

A group from the James and Marilynn Alsdorf Collection include works by François Boucher, Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, Jean-Baptiste Oudry, and Maerten de Vos, among others. Masterwork by Ingres, Géricault and Bouguereau highlight the French section of the sale, and a group of drawings from the Collections of Michael Hall attests the enduring legacy of Rembrandt as a draftsman. The sale concludes with four exceptional watercolors by Turner, covering the entire arch of the great British artist’s career.

SELECT HIGHLIGHTS | OLD MASTER & BRITISH DRAWINGS INCLUDING WORKS FROM THE COLLECTION OF JEAN BONNA

• PIETRO DI CRISTOFORO VANNUCCI, CALLED PERUGINO (CITTÀ DELLA PIEVE CIRCA 1450-1523 FONTIGNANO), Head of an Apostle, metalpoint (silver?) heightened with white on gray prepared paper, 9.5 x 7.9 in. (24.10 x 20 cm) Estimate: $200,000-300,000

• FRANÇOIS BOUCHER (PARIS 1703-1770), A nude woman playing a flute, seen from behind black, red and white chalk with pastel on blue paper, 9 1/2 x 14 in. (24 x 36 cm) Estimate: $20,000-30,000

• GIOVANNI BATTISTA TIEPOLO (VENICE 1696-1770 MADRID), Three studies of a donkey, red and white chalk, 12 1/4 x 18 3/4 in. (31 x 47.6 cm) Estimate: $250,000-350,000

• JOSEPH MALLORD WILLIAM TURNER, R.A. (LONDON 1775-1851), Mont Blanc from the Bridge of St. Martin, Sallanches, pencil and watercolor heightened with bodycolor and gum arabic and with scratching out, 11 ¼ x 15 ¾ in. (28.5 cm. x 40 cm.) Estimate: $200,000-300,000

• GIROLAMO FRANCESCO MAZZOLA, IL PARMIGIANINO (PARMA 1503-1540 CASALMAGGIORE), Daniel in the lions' den, red chalk, 3 ½ x 5 7/8 in. (9 x 15 cm) Estimate: $60,000-80,000

• JEAN-LOUIS-ANDRÉ-THÉODORE GÉRICAULT (ROUEN 1791-1824 PARIS), The coal wagon; Study of a horse, with a second study of a horse, graphite, pen and gray ink, watercolor, 7 3/4 x 10 3/4 in. (19.6 x 27.3 cm) Estimate: $200,000-300,000