Lot 15 · Old Master & British Paintings (Evening Sale)
The King Drinks
Pieter Brueghel III · oil on panel
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- Estimate
- £250,000–£350,000 hammer ≈ $409,700–$573,580
- Result
- Performance
- Sale
- Christie's — Old Master & British Paintings (Evening Sale), London · 2 June 1998
- Dimensions
- 29 x 41¾ in. (43.7 x 106 cm.)
- Record ID
- TB-2026-4641387
- Record
- first seen 28 Jul 2026 · updated 28 Jul 2026 · source ↗
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- TB-2026-4641387 — https://thebasis.art/cite/TB-2026-4641387
Pieter Brueghel III, The King Drinks. Christie's, 2 Jun 1998, lot 15. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-4641387.
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Pieter Brueghel III, The King Drinks. Christie's, 2 Jun 1998, lot 15. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-4641387.
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| Lot | Artist | Estimate | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| A lawyer seated at a table reading a letter | Adriaen Van Ostade | £500,000–£700,000 | |
| Dutch men-o'-war and other shipping in a calm | Willem I Van De Velde | £1,500,000–£2,500,000 | |
| A scene from Aesop's Fables: The Porcupine and the Snakes | Jan Van Kessel II | £30,000–£50,000 | |
| DANTE ALIGHIERI. La divina comedia , edited by Lodovico Dolce. Venice… | DANTE ALIGHIERI. La divina comedia , edited by Lodovico Dolce. Venice: Gabriel Giolito de Ferrari, et fratelli, 1555 [colophon: 1554]. 12°. Woodcut cartouche and Giolto's phoenix device to title. Medallion portrait of Dante on leaf *3 v. Twelve oval woodcuts in text enclosed by a frame with grotesques. Small grotesque, historiated and putti initials, grotesque headpieces and numerous type ornaments. (Title stained and repaired in blank area, margins generally rather soiled and stained.) 18th-century vellum titled in manuscript. FIRST DOLCE EDITION and the first edition to have the title Divina comedia . The cuts are based on Marcolini's blocks of 1544. Adams P101; BL STC Italian p. 210; Gamba 389: "Raro"; Mortimer Italian 147 -- Giovanni di Domenico BURCHIELLO. Rime commentate dal Doni . Venice: per Francesco Marcolini, 1553. 8°. Woodcut portrait of the author to A8 v repeated on O7 v. Marcolini's device to title and final leaf. Woodcut armorial initial to A7 r and smaller woodcut floral initials. (Paper repair to foot of title after erasure of inscription, marginal soiling.) Late 19th-century fawn morocco gilt, marbled endpapers, g.e. Provenance : Piero Ginori Conti (armorial bookplate). First edition of the poems edited by Doni. Adams B3296; BL STC Italian p. 223; Cencimento B4093 -- Bernardino BALDI. Versi e Prose . Venice: Francesco de'Franceschi, 1590. 4°. Woodcut device to title, historiated initials and typographical ornaments. (Title spotted, heavy stains to quire L, some marginal spotting and occasional thumb-soiling.) 18th-century vellum with morocco label (a few worm traces), blue sprinkled edges. BL STC Italian p. 68; Cencimento B150; Gamba 1222: "pregevole raccolta". With one other work in verse by Francesco Berni, and 4 prose works by Annibale Rinuccini, Agnolo Firenzuola and others. (8) | £700–£1,000 | |
| The Virgin Lactans | Ambrosius Benson | £40,000–£60,000 | |
| Christ as the Man of Sorrows | Workshop Of Albrecht Bouts | £60,000–£80,000 |
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| Artist | Lot | vs. estimate | Result USD, incl. premium | Sale |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pieter Brueghel III | The Payment of the Tithes | $1,007,476 | Christie's, Jun 2026 | |
| Pieter Brueghel III | Peasants brawling | Christie's, Jul 2018 | ||
| Pieter Brueghel III | A village landscape with figures conversing in the foregroun | Christie's, Jun 2026 | ||
| Pieter Brueghel III | Peasants merrymaking outside an inn | Christie's, Jul 2006 | ||
| Sir Anthony Van Dyck | saint philip | Sotheby's, Jul 2020 | ||
| Pieter Brueghel III | A village landscape with farmers conversing in the foregroun | Christie's, Jul 2005 | ||
| Pieter Brueghel III | The Payment of Tithes | Christie's, Jul 2009 | ||
| Pieter Brueghel III | The Wedding Dance | Christie's, Feb 2012 |
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.