Following the record-breaking sale of William Drost’s Flora in January 2017, the Master Paintings Evening Sale will include another rediscovery from the artist’s Italian period: Roman Charity (estimate $200/300,000). Painted at the beginning of the artist’s sojourn in Venice, circa 1655-1657, the present work has not been seen on the market for over a century, having remained in a private collection since at least 1850. As with Flora, the painting is a remarkable combination of the artist’s early training in Amsterdam under Rembrandt, with the more mature style he developed in Venice, where he worked in the Italian tenebrist style made popular by Jusepe di Ribera.

Exhibited for the first time in nearly 130 years, the Evening Sale will also feature a charming interior scene by Nicolas Lancret, from his celebrated Four Season series. Known only from a black and white engraving, L’Hiver (Winter) of 1719-21 has remained in the same collection since 1889 and is one of the most important discoveries of Lancret’s work in recent history (estimate $1.5/2 million) Separate release available