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Lot 152 · Cameras and Photographic Equipment

Jupiter and Mercury spying on the sleeping Callisto, with Jupiter in the guise of Diana chasing Callisto in the background

Pieter Coecke Van Aelst

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Estimate
$20,000–$30,000 hammer
Result
Performance
Sale
Christie's — CAMERAS AND PHOTOGRAPHIC EQUIPMENT, London (South Kensington) · 24 January 2001
Record ID
TB-2026-6058081
Record
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Pieter Coecke Van Aelst, Jupiter and Mercury spying on the sleeping Callisto, with Jupiter in the guise of Diana chasing Callisto in the background. Christie's, 24 Jan 2001, lot 152. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-6058081.

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Pieter Coecke Van Aelst, Jupiter and Mercury spying on the sleeping Callisto, with Jupiter in the guise of Diana chasing Callisto in the background. Christie's, 24 Jan 2001, lot 152. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-6058081.

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From the same sale Cameras and Photographic Equipment · Jan 2001

LotArtistEstimateResult
Neptune in his chariot drawn by hippocamps Giulio Pippi, called Giulio Romano (1499-1546) or studio $25,000–$50,000
An extensive river landscape, with a fort in the background ( recto )… Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi, il Bolognese (1606-1680) $3,000–$5,000
The death of Patroclus, with the body of Hector brought by Achilles Joseph-Barthélémy Le Bouteux (1744-after 1791) $6,000–$8,000
A view in the Roman campagna Attributed to Félix Boisselier (1776-1811) $5,000–$7,000
Peacocks, doves, a deer, an eagle, a pheasant and a horse at a founta… Jean de La Chambre the Younger (1648-1685) $3,000–$5,000
An album of thirty-six leaves: studies of heads, feet, angels and put… Attributed to Sebastian Walther (1576-1645) $7,000–$10,000

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Pieter Coecke Van Aelst [no title recorded] $20,408 Dorotheum, Oct 2018
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Pieter Coecke Van Aelst the lamentation at the foot of the cross Sotheby's, Jan 2012
Flemish School 18th Century A study for the back of a woman's head Sotheby's, Apr 2023
French School, 19th Century Ressemblance Garantie Sotheby's, Oct 2022
Pieter Coecke Van Aelst Head of a man in a turban looking upwards; and A bearded man Christie's, Jan 2009

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