Lot 231 · Old Master Paintings Day Sale
A woman pulling water from a well, a pile of vegetables at her feet
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- Estimate
- £12,000–£18,000 hammer ≈ $17,556–$26,334
- Result
- Performance
- Sale
- Sotheby's — Old Master Paintings Day Sale, London · 4 December 2008
- Record ID
- TB-2026-3823767
- Record
- first seen 28 Jul 2026 · updated 6 Sep 2026 · source ↗
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Willem Kalf, A woman pulling water from a well, a pile of vegetables at her feet. Sotheby's, 4 Dec 2008, lot 231. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-3823767.
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Willem Kalf, A woman pulling water from a well, a pile of vegetables at her feet. Sotheby's, 4 Dec 2008, lot 231. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-3823767.
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|---|---|---|---|---|
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| Jan Brueghel The Younger | Hunters in a Forest Landscape | Lempertz, May 2022 | ||
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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.