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- Estimate
- $5,000–$7,000 hammer
- Result
- Performance
- Sale
- Sotheby's — Old Master & 19th Century European Art, New York · 29 January 2010
- Record ID
- TB-2026-3908760
- Record
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Pierre-alexandre Wille, Head of an Old Man. Sotheby's, 29 Jan 2010, lot 719. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-3908760.
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Pierre-alexandre Wille, Head of an Old Man. Sotheby's, 29 Jan 2010, lot 719. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-3908760.
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From the same sale Old Master & 19th Century European Art · Jan 2010
| Lot | Artist | Estimate | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Embrace | Gaston La Touche | $8,000–$12,000 | |
| A Young Woman of Leisure | Pierre Olivier Joseph Coomans | $5,000–$7,000 | |
| Contemplation | Ferdinand Vichi | $6,000–$9,000 | |
| Peaks in Snow | Arseniy Ivanovich Meshchersky | $7,000–$10,000 | |
| Portrait of a child | Edouard Cabane | $5,000–$7,000 | |
| Sleigh Riding Through a Village | Wladyslaw T. Chmielinski | $5,000–$7,000 |
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| Artist | Lot | vs. estimate | Result USD, incl. premium | Sale |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pierre-alexandre Wille | Soothing the Child; and The New Hat | $4,750 | Christie's, Oct 2020 | |
| Pierre-alexandre Wille | A young lady and two girls walking in a landscape | Christie's, Jul 1999 | ||
| French School, 19th Century | Eight studies of trophies of war | Sotheby's, Feb 2025 | ||
| Pierre-alexandre Wille | A group of elegantly coiffured ladies, Cupid, a dog and an o | Christie's, Jul 2021 | ||
| Pierre-alexandre Wille | an elegantly dressed lady seated at a table, reading a lette | Sotheby's, Apr 2010 | ||
| Pierre-alexandre Wille | Portrait of a Woman Reading a Letter | Sotheby's, Jan 2004 | ||
| Dutch School, 18th Century | [no title recorded] | Dorotheum, Dec 2024 | ||
| Pierre-alexandre Wille | Portrait of a young man, bust-length, looking up | Sotheby's, Oct 2021 |
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.