A 1624 painting on canvas representing a bagpipe player in profile by the Dutch artist Hendrick Ter Bruggen (1588-1629) fetched 10,162,000 USD (Buyer's premium included) against a high estimate of 6 million USD during a sale held by Sotheby's on January 29th 2009 in New York.
The sale yielded some good results for Sotheby's, notably for Joseph Mallord William Turner's "Temple of Jupiter Panellenius restored" which fetched 12,962, 500 USD against a low estimate of 12million USD while a painting depicting "The Magus Hermogenes casting his magic books into the water" by Italian artist Lorenzo Monaco (active between 1389 and 1423 in Florence) sold for 1,426,500 USD against a low estimate of 800,000 USD.
Pieter Brueghel
Pieter Brueghel the Younger's "St George Kermis with the dance around the Maypole" realised 2,434,500 USD against a low estimate of 1,5 million USD. Lucas Cranach the Elder's "Old man beguiled by courtesans" sold for 1,762,500 USD against a low estimate of 800,000 USD and François Boucher's "The Muse Erato" went for 1,314,500 USD against a low estimate of 300,000 USD.
Lucas Cranach François Boucher
A surprising bid of of 986,500 USD was recorded for a portrait of Pope Benedict XIV by the French artist Pierre Subleyras (1699-1749) against a low estimate of 100,000 USD while a capriccio of the prisons of San Marco set in a piazza with a coach and townfolk by Giovanni Antonio Canal called Canaletto (1697-1768) fetched 2,882,500 USD against a low estimate of 2,5 million USD.
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