Pieter Brueghel le Jeune Leads Bonhams Cornette de Saint Cyr $1.18m 'Old Master Paintings' Auction in Paris

A work by Pieter Brueghel le Jeune was the headline sale at Bonhams Cornette de Saint Cyr 'Old Master Paintings' auction on April 9 in Paris.

• The sale totaled $1.18m (EUR1.07m), exceeding the pre-sale high estimate.

Snapshot of the sale

• 28 works sold totaling $1.18m.
• Estimates totaled: $710,200 (low) and $1.11m (high), excluding premiums.
• The sell-through rate was 43% of the original 65 lots announced.

The star lot was: Pieter Brueghel le Jeune, The Wedding Dance in the Open Air (Undated), which sold for $872,300, 168% above its $325,100 low estimate. It has been traded twice in the past.

The outperformer sold for 510% above its low estimate. After Joseph Karl Stieler, Portrait of Eugène de Beauharnais; Portrait of Princess Augusta of Bavaria (Undated), sold for $19,800 ($3,251 low estimate). It has been traded once in the past.

• 14 works, or 50%, sold above their high estimate.
• 14 works, or 50%, sold within their low and high estimate.
• 0 works, or 0%, sold below their low estimate.
• 0 sold with undisclosed estimates.

Guaranteed sales

No sales had a guarantee.

Works that did not sell

37 works were bought-in, including: Francesco Zuccarelli, Architectural Capriccio with Figures near a Fountain; Architectural Capriccio with Draftsman (Undated), estimated at $43,300 (low) to $65,000 (high). It has been traded once in the past.

Withdrawn before the sale

0 works were withdrawn

Terms and definitions

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Guarantees: Sometimes an auction house guarantees to pay a seller for a work, regardless of whether the bidding reaches the reserve price, a figure that is typically confidential.

Bought-in: If there are no bids for a work, or if bidding falls short of the reserve price, the lot is unsold or “bought-in”.

Withdrawn: This happens when a seller decides, for whatever reason, to withdraw a work before the bidding begins.

Premiums: Typically a sliding-scale of charges paid in addition to the hammer price by the buyer, plus any other fees.