Abraham Jansz. Begeyn — auction results & prices

31results on record

57%sell-through

$8,000median result (USD, incl. premium; 96% observed, 4% estimated from hammer)

$67,837record in our coverage

Drawn from 31 recorded results (25 sold · 6 passed) across 6 auction houses, 2000–2026. What we cover

Median sold price by year typical estimate range median result USD, incl. premium; 96% observed, 4% estimated from hammer method · log scale

Where does a value land in this market?

The same figure also answers the seller's question: which house clears a work like this, and for how much — expected proceeds by house, from the sell-through the rest of this page is built on.

Every sold result for this market, low to high (log scale) — the dashed line is the median. Enter a value to see where it lands.

By medium where medium is recorded or stated in the catalog line

Medium	Results	Sell-through	Median result (USD)
painting	13	33%	$8,000

Medium is recorded for 13 of 31 results (42%) — rows above cover that subset; the rest of the record is in the full ledger below.

Compared with Klaes Molenaer Abraham Jansz. Begeyn Klaes Molenaer

Metric	Abraham Jansz. Begeyn	Klaes Molenaer
Median result	$8,000	$11,814
Record price	$67,837	$209,435
Results on record	31	123
Years active at auction	2000–2026	1998–2026

Where this artist sells best

House	Results	Sell-through	Median	vs. estimate
Christie's	10	—	$8,437	—
Sotheby's	10	67%	$10,165	0.73×
Bonhams	7	57%	$5,559	0.78×
Lempertz	1	100%	$5,497	—
Locati LLC	1	100%	$2,625	1.20×
Sala Retiro	2	0%	—	—

The same artist across every house we cover — hammer-vs-estimate side by side. A dash in the estimate column can mean withheld rather than unpublished: the house publishes no hammer price, or its printed low is a starting bid rather than an appraisal. Method →

Prices realized 31 recorded lots — sold, passed, and upcoming — results in USD incl. premium; est. marks a premium estimated from the house's schedule ✓ Includes 6 passed lots

Date	Lot	Medium	Estimate USD	House
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2026·07	Extensive landscape with herders and their animals fording a stream, trees on the bank behind		$6,620–$9,268	Sotheby's
2025·12	Peasants merrymaking beneath a wall		$8,004–$10,672	Sotheby's
2025·11	Oil on Panel		$1,500–$2,000	Locati LLC
2023·09	An extensive evening landscape with a shepherd, a cow and goats in the foreground		$4,947–$7,421	Sotheby's
2022·09	Sheep and goats resting in a wooded landscape, a town beyond		$2,310–$3,465	Bonhams
2022·04	Pintor neerlandes CABRA, CARDO Y FLORES Óleo		—	Sala Retiro
2022·04	Drovers on a country path with their flock		$3,904–$6,507	Bonhams
2021·12	CABRA, CARDO Y FLORES Óleo sobre		—	Sala Retiro
2021·12	A forest floor still life with elegant figures outside a classical mansion		$7,920–$10,559	Bonhams
2018·10	An Italianate river landscape with figures, sheep and cattle		$7,745–$10,326	Bonhams
2018·09	Landscape with Shepherds and Animals		$3,500–$4,667	Lempertz
2018·04	and possibly Melchior de Hondecoeter (Utrecht 1636-1695 Amsterdam) A forest floor still life with a chaffinch, swallow and other birds, before a farmhouse		$5,578–$8,367	Bonhams
2017·05	Forest floor still life, with a thistle		$3,879–$5,172	Sotheby's
2016·04	A drover and his flock fording a stream before a walled town		$4,377–$7,295	Bonhams
2015·11	An Italianate landscape with figures conversing and watering their cattle at a mountainside	oil on canvas	$5,333–$7,466	Christie's
2015·10	A drover and his flock fording a stream before a walled town		$7,647–$10,706	Bonhams
2014·01	Landscape with Deer and Exotic Birds		$15,000–$20,000	Sotheby's
2013·05	A forest landscape with a goatherd resting with his flock	oil on canvas	$9,175–$13,107	Christie's
2012·11	A greyhound by a willow in a landscape	oil on canvas	$3,182–$4,454	Christie's
2008·11	A peasant woman milking a cow; and A herdsman with his cattle	oil on panel, oval	$7,735–$10,313	Christie's
2008·05	an italianate landscape with a herdsman and his cattle resting near a tree		$7,715–$10,801	Sotheby's
2008·05	an italianate landscape with a shepherd's family crossing a stream with their herd, a dog in the foreground		$15,430–$23,145	Sotheby's
2007·07	a forest floor with a thistle, the ruin of an ionic column, butterflies, a toad, and a songbird		$40,379–$60,568	Sotheby's
2007·02	A mountainous wooded river landscape with a drover and his herd	oil on panel	$3,898–$5,847	Christie's
2006·11	An elegant riding party at a blacksmith outside the walls of a town	oil on canvas	$6,402–$8,963	Christie's
2005·07	A coastal landscape with a horseman, a wagoner, herdsmen and stevedores, three-masters and mountains beyond	oil on canvas	$17,558–$26,337	Christie's
2005·04	still life of flowers, including roses, tulips and chrysanthemums, in a stone vase with butterflies and a lizard		$38,139–$57,209	Sotheby's
2004·06	An Italianate landscape with cattle fording a stream by a ruin	oil on canvas	$8,000–$12,000	Christie's
2003·10	a wooded landscape with piping shepherds and their flocks		$6,821–$10,231	Sotheby's
2002·07	An Italianate landscape with drovers fording a river, the Temple of the Sibyl at Tivoli beyond		$7,735–$12,376	Christie's
2000·07	A thistle with butterflies		$7,553–$10,575	Christie's

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