TOP LOT OF THE SALE
NOËL BELLEMARE AND JEAN CLOUET, FRANCIS Ier RECEIVING A BOOK FROM ITS AUTHOR
Estimate: €30,000 - 40,000 
Sold for : €453,600

98,5 % SOLD BY LOT
68% OF LOTS SOLD ABOVE HIGH ESTIMATE
BIDDERS COMING FROM 32 COUNTRIES
1 PREEMPTION BY MUSEE CONDÉ DE CHANTILLY

Paris - On November 16, Christie's Paris presented the second sale of Classic Week, Derniers Souvenirs de Ferrières, bringing together over 200 lots from the collection of James de Rothschild, totalling €3,097,458, 3 times the pre-sale estimate.  It was one of the last opportunities for collectors to acquire a small piece of Rothschild's taste, through a very eclectic diversity of objects, and at very attractive estimates. Les Greniers de Ferrières sale, online until November 21, offers the very last chance to be a guardian of their style.

From the collections of the family of Baron Robert de Rothschild, the painting Renaud abandonne Armide by Charles-Antoine Coypel (1694-1752), which was offered in the Maitres Anciens sale for a total of  €1,550,430, achieved the highest result of the sale at €352,800. 

The highlight of the Derniers Souvenirs de Ferrières sale was also a superb miniature, never seen on the market: a bodycolour, heightened with gold, on vellum by Noël Bellemare and Jean Clouet depicting François Ier, surrounded by his court, receiving a work by its author, acquired for €453,600, 10 times its pre-sale estimate.

Another miniature, by Jean Decourt, depicting Catherine de Médicis surrounded by her sons Charles IX and Henry III and her daughters-in-law Elisabeth d'Autriche and Louise de Vaudémont, was pre-empted by the Musée Condé in Chantilly, and purchased for €22,680.

" With today's superb results - 68% of lots sold above their high estimate - we can once again attest the strength of the provenance for collectors. The Rothschild taste still has a long life ahead of it, and finds its place in interiors in which a taste for the old and refinement blend marvelously with modern comfort.." Lionel Gosset, Director of the Collections Department

The Derniers souvenirs de Ferrières sale recorded excellent performances in all categories, including a selection illustrated below.

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