Lot 22 · Old Master and 19th Century Drawings
The Feast of the Gods: Design for a ceiling compartment
Prospero Fontana · black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash, heightened with white, on blue paper, shaped
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- Estimate
- £15,000–£20,000 hammer ≈ $30,220–$40,293
- Result
- Performance
- Sale
- Christie's — Old Master and 19th Century Drawings, London · 3 July 2007
- Dimensions
- 9 5/8 x 15 5/8 in. (245 x 398 mm.)
- Record ID
- TB-2026-5542561
- Record
- first seen 28 Jul 2026 · updated 28 Jul 2026 · source ↗
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- TB-2026-5542561 — https://thebasis.art/cite/TB-2026-5542561
Prospero Fontana, The Feast of the Gods: Design for a ceiling compartment. Christie's, 3 Jul 2007, lot 22. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-5542561.
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Prospero Fontana, The Feast of the Gods: Design for a ceiling compartment. Christie's, 3 Jul 2007, lot 22. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-5542561.
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| Lot | Artist | Estimate | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| Head of a panther, after the Antique | Pier Leone Ghezzi | £3,000–£5,000 | |
| Esau selling his birthright to Jacob ( Genesis 25:29-34) | Jacob Jordaens | £8,000–£12,000 | |
| A seated drinker holding an earthenware pot | Cornelis Dusart | £2,000–£3,000 | |
| A maid with a butterchurn | Gerrit Adriaensz. Berckheyde | £1,500–£2,000 | |
| Les Dômes | Jacques Rigaut 1898-1929 | £15,000–£25,000 | |
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| Artist | Lot | vs. estimate | Result USD, incl. premium | Sale |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prospero Fontana | The Adoration of the Magi; The Adoration of the Shepherds | $101,851 | Sotheby's, Jul 2004 | |
| Hubert Robert Paris | Architectural capriccio with the Pantheon, Trajan’s column a | Sotheby's, Nov 2024 | ||
| Hubert Robert Paris | The ruins of an antique building with an obelisk and figures | Christie's, Jan 2022 | ||
| Prospero Fontana | the holy family with the infant saint john the baptist | Sotheby's, Jul 2004 | ||
| Francesco Guardi | [no title recorded] | Dorotheum, Apr 2026 | ||
| Hubert Robert Paris | Les Lavandières | Sotheby's, Jun 2026 | ||
| François Boucher | the dream of saint joseph | Sotheby's, Dec 2020 | ||
| Hubert Robert Paris | The Tivoli waterfalls with the Temple of the Sibyl | Sotheby's, Oct 2022 |
The closest sold results by price, artist, and medium — the appraiser's comp set, generated from the corpus. All figures converted to USD at current reference rates.