Lot 3 · Baroque: Masterpieces from the Fisch Davidson Collection
Young man asleep before an open book
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- Estimate
- $500,000–$700,000 hammer
- Result
- Performance
- Sale
- Sotheby's — Baroque: Masterpieces from the Fisch Davidson Collection, New York · 26 January 2023
- Record ID
- TB-2026-5093460
- Record
- first seen 28 Jul 2026 · updated 6 Sep 2026 · source ↗
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Rembrandt Van Rijn, Young man asleep before an open book. Sotheby's, 26 Jan 2023, lot 3. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-5093460.
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Rembrandt Van Rijn, Young man asleep before an open book. Sotheby's, 26 Jan 2023, lot 3. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-5093460.
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From the same sale Baroque: Masterpieces from the Fisch Davidson Collection · Jan 2023
| Lot | Artist | Estimate | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| Orpheus and Eurydice fleeing Hades | Gaetano Gandolfi | $200,000–$300,000 | |
| Jacob holding Joseph's bloodied coat | Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, Called Il Guercino | $1,500,000–$2,000,000 | |
| Christ crowned with thorns | Valentin De Boulogne | $4,000,000–$6,000,000 | |
| Man cutting a block of tobacco with another figure smoking a pipe behind | Mattia Preti | $1,000,000–$1,500,000 | |
| Saint Bartholomew | Bernardo Cavallino | $2,500,000–$3,500,000 | |
| Saint James the Greater | Georges De La Tour | $3,500,000–$5,000,000 |
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| Artist | Lot | vs. estimate | Result USD, incl. premium | Sale |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gaetano Gandolfi | A bearded man, bust-length in profile, wearing a brown coat | $818,600 | Sotheby's, Jan 2022 | |
| Mattia Preti | Man cutting a block of tobacco with another figure smoking a | Sotheby's, Jan 2023 | ||
| Mattia Preti | Saints Vincent Ferrer, Peter Martyr and Raymond of Peñafort | Christie's, Dec 2023 | ||
| Mattia Preti | The Liberation of Saint Peter | Christie's, Feb 2025 | ||
| Valentin De Boulogne | a young shepherd wearing a crown of laurel leaves and holdin | Sotheby's, Jan 2019 | ||
| Mattia Preti | Samuel anointing David | Christie's, Jul 2025 | ||
| Gaetano Gandolfi | Scene at a Classical Banquet | Sotheby's, Jan 2008 | ||
| Gaetano Gandolfi | The Judgement of Solomon | Sotheby's, Jan 2007 |
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.