As an introduction to this day devoted to classical art, the 100 or so lots in Joachim Roy's collection will be on view at 10 am. They will reflect his passion for Baroque and religious art, such as a small 18th-century Italian altarpiece in polychrome carved wood welcoming saints around its baptistery surrounded by Ionic columns (€1,000/1,500), or a fanciful Vue de saint Pierre de Rome avec Héliodore chassé du temple , a canvas painted around 1680 in the circle of Gutierez Cabello (€4,000/6,000). These objets d'art were displayed in his Parisian townhouse, whose ceilings he had decorated with reproductions of the greatest Italian works of the 17th century. The auction resumes at 2 p.m. with some 200 other lots, and a spotlight on the preparatory terracotta model of the funerary movement of Commander Jacques de Souvré, by François Anguier (1604-1669). Executed before 1667, this work will still cost between €2 and €3m (see Gazette no. 22, page 8). For furnishings reminiscent of the Louis XV period, a suite of three gilded wood flat-back armchairs, decorated with foliage, flowers, lattice work and discs on the belt, will cost around €9,000, and a violet wood and rosewood chest of drawers stamped by Adrien Delorme, with five drawers in three rows and a red Rance marble top, around €7,000. A studio painting evokes the memory of a lost work by Sébastien Bourdon: Le Mariage mystique de sainte Catherine (approx. €10,000). From the second half of the 19th century, a pair of Aubusson tapestries, depicting the muse Erato (€80,000/10,000), will play the charm card.
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