VIENNA.- Following the sensational sale result achieved at Dorotheum for a previously missing Titian Penitent Magdalen which sold for €4,818,000 in May, the autumn Old Master Paintings auctions, on 9th and 10th November, will once again offer previously lost and unpublished works from private collections which are unknown to the market.

A significant work by Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, Il Guercino and Benedetto Gennari Neptuneis a celebrated composition by the artist which was only previously known for workshop copies (estimate €200,000 – 300,000). It was rediscovered in a collection where it had been unobserved for several generations - the exceptionally well conserved painting was for some time even considered to be a 19th century copy due its excellent condition.

Further rediscovered highlights in the sale include the front panel from a cassone, entitled A Triumph, painted by Apollonio di Giovanni. The exceptional work, which is richly decorated with gold leaf, is part of a traditional marriage chest of the type carried during prestigious wedding processions in Quattrocento Florence. It would have been commissioned by a family as an illustration of their rank (estimate €400,000 – 600,000).




A compelling Portrait of a gentleman holding a letter by the 17th century Bolognese painter, Bartolomeo Passerotti, (estimate €150,000 – 200,000), is also a recent rediscovery previously unknown to art historians.

After extensive research, the elegant 18th century portrait of Prince Albert Casimir of Sachsen-Teschen by Marcelo Bacciarelli is thought to be the previously lost pair to a celebrated portrait of his wife Archduchess Maria Christina, now on loan to the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna. This recently rediscovered portrait of the founder of the celebrated art collection now conserved in the Albertina Museum in Vienna, may have originally hung alongside the painting of his wife in Schloss Hof near Vienna where such a pair of portraits are mentioned in historical inventories.

The November sales also includes 18th century vedute, or view paintings, from prestigious British and European private collections, including The Colosseum, Rome by Gaspare van Wittel, il Vanvitelli (estimate €250,000 –300,000) and Michele Marieschi´s Piazza San Marco, Venice (estimate €300,000 –400,000).

Other paintings offered in the sales include a Magdalen by Ambrosius Benson, The Judgement of Midas by Denijs van Alsloot and Hendrick de Clerck andAlanding stage with shipping and figures by Jan Brueghel I (estimates €300,000 – 400,000, €100,000 – 150,000, €150,000 – 250,000).