VIENNA.- If one adds to an attractive subject painted by an outstanding artist the fact that it has been in an Italian private collection for over 100 years, then everything is just perfect. This is precisely the case with a work by the Venetian painter Luigi Querena at the Dorotheum sale of 19th century paintings on 9th November 2021. 528,000 euros mark a world record for the history painting ‘The Blessed Doge Francesco Morosini leaving Venice in 1693 to Fight the Turks on the Peloponnese’, which measures 132 x 190 cm. In addition to topographical details, it also depicts the ship of the eccentric Doge who loved his cat and went into battle with it.

Luigi Querena (1824-1890) specialised in traditional Venetian views, earning a reputation for reviving the subjects made popular by Canaletto.

FROM RUBENS TO TINTORETTO
Successful Old Master Paintings sale at Dorotheum on 10th November 2021

Prominent artists dominated the first of the autumn Old Master Paintings auctions at Dorotheum on 10th November 2021. A broad range of works by well-known and influential Italian and Flemish painters, including Jacopo Tintoretto and Peter Paul Rubens performed well in the sale. A dynamic depiction of the Holy Family by Rubens and his workshop, sold for 548,218 Euro; an intriguing, large scale family portrait by Tintoretto which has only recently come to light, reached 415,500 euro, and a contrastingly well documented, mythological group by the same artist, entitled "Venus, Mars and Cupid", which was once in the collection of Walter Percy Chrysler Jr, was sold for 315,500 euro.

Other top lots in the auction were strongly contested by bidders both in person and online, including the portrait of “Il Splendissimo”, Vincenzo Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua by Frans Pourbus the Younger (€ 332,518), and the “Portrait of a man with a red beard” by the Bergamese master of the genre, Giovanni Battista Moroni (€ 328,000), along with Roelant Savery's "Peasants in front of a ruined watchtower" ‘(€ 253,000).
Prominent artists dominated the first of the autumn Old Master Paintings auctions at Dorotheum on 10th November 2021. A broad range of works by well-known and influential Italian and Flemish painters, including Jacopo Tintoretto and Peter Paul Rubens performed well in the sale. A dynamic depiction of the Holy Family by Rubens and his workshop, sold for 548,218 Euro; an intriguing, large scale family portrait by Tintoretto which has only recently come to light, reached 415,500 euro, and a contrastingly well documented, mythological group by the same artist, entitled "Venus, Mars and Cupid", which was once in the collection of Walter Percy Chrysler Jr, was sold for 315,500 euro.

Other top lots in the auction were strongly contested by bidders both in person and online, including the portrait of “Il Splendissimo”, Vincenzo Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua by Frans Pourbus the Younger (€ 332,518), and the “Portrait of a man with a red beard” by the Bergamese master of the genre, Giovanni Battista Moroni (€ 328,000), along with Roelant Savery's "Peasants in front of a ruined watchtower" ‘(€ 253,000).