Old Master Paintings and Drawings

The one dedicated to Old Master Paintings and Drawings is one of the most important and historical departments within Cambi Auction House.

Internationally recognized as an important point of reference for Italian and foreign collectors, the department of Antique Paintings aims to devote the utmost care and seriousness in the research and enhancement of unpublished or published works, making available to clients a great expertise in the field, matured by our experts and esteemed art historians in years of work in the field and study.

A wide and varied selection of works, both Italian and European in scope, is always presented within the antique painting catalogs, with the quality of the paintings presented, the rarity of the subjects and artists proposed and a good provenance as the essential criteria of choice, thus meeting the demands of even the most demanding collectors and amateurs.

Leafing through the pages of our catalogs, one can find works ranging from the fourteenth century to the late eighteenth century, such as precious paintings with a gold background from the Gothic period, important panels dating back to the Renaissance, and spectacular canvases, the work of some of the most important protagonists of Mannerism and Baroque at the international level, up to the highest peaks of neoclassical production.

In addition to offering advice in the field of painting on different media (such as panel, canvas, copper, glass or stone), the Department of Old Master Paintings also pays special attention to graphic production, offering interesting nuclei of drawings and studies on paper, dating back to different periods and made in black pencil, sanguine, pastel or watercolor.

Moreover, Cambi Auction House has always reserved particular relevance to Genoese pictorial production, exhibiting within the halls of its historic headquarters in Castello MacKenzie some of the masterpieces of the 17th and 18th centuries, among which stand out the names of great artists of the caliber of Luca Cambiaso, Giovanni Battista Paggi, Bernardo Castello, Domenico Fiasella, Bernardo Strozzi, Gregorio De Ferrari, Antonio Tavella, Antonio Travi, Domenico Piola, Gioacchino Assereto and Valerio Castello.

We recall some of the most important examples of ancient paintings adjudicated in our recent sales including Rubens' Dying Seneca, sold for €574,100, the pair of paintings by Panini adjudicated for €393,000, but also Giorgio Vasari'sAllegory of Autumn, a work sold for €150,100. Excellent adjudications were also achieved for antique paintings by Italian painters such as Giovanni Serodine, with his Saint Jerome, adjudicated for €334,100, Sandro Botticelli for his Madonna and Child, sold for €310,000.

In terms of sales, the Department of Old Master Paintings and Drawings closes the year 2023 with sales over 4.1 million. Top lots for 2023 include Jan Brueghel I called of the Velvets (1568 Brussels - 1625 Antwerp) and Joos De Momper the Younger (1564 Antwerp - 1635 Antwerp), attributed to, Winter Landscape with Skaters. Sold for 162,600 euros (estimate: 20,000 to 25,000 euros). Top adjudications also include Maestro di Marradi, Procession of the Magi, oil on panel, 72x55 cm. Sold at: 137,600 euros (Estimate: 20,000 - 25,000 euros) and by Giulio Cesare Procaccini, Holy Family with St. John, oil on canvas. Sold for 122,600 euros (Estimate: 50,000 - 60,000 euros).

Our experts are available to evaluate the paintings in your possession free of charge; contact us for more information.
Department Auctions
Top Lots

The Best Awards

Pietro Paolo Rubens (Siegen 1577 - Anversa 1640) Seneca morente
€ 574.100,00
Amount including auction fees

Paolo Schiavo Battista di Gerio (Pisa 1350 - 1420) L'albero di Jesse
€ 442.100,00
Amount including auction fees

Giovanni Serodine (Ascona 1600 - Roma 1630) San Gerolamo
€ 334.100,00
Amount including auction fees

Elisabeth Vigèe Le Brun (Parigi 1755 - Louvenciennes 1842) Ritratto di [..]
€ 322.100,00
Amount including auction fees

Sandro Botticelli (Firenze 1445-1510), cerchia di (Luca di Fruosino at [..]
€ 310.100,00
Amount including auction fees

Jan Sanders van Hemessen (Hemiksem 1500 - Haarlem 1566), attribuito a [..]
€ 262.100,00
Amount including auction fees

Gaetano Gandolfi

Giovane donna abbigliata come Minerva
€ 212.600,00
Amount including auction fees

Gaetano Gandolfi

Busto di fanciulla di tre quarti, con i capelli raccolti
€ 187.600,00
Amount including auction fees

Juan Dò (Jativa 1604 - Napoli 1656), già Maestro dell'Annuncio ai past [..]
€ 175.100,00
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Jan Brueghel I detto dei Velluti (1568 Bruxelles - 1625 Anversa) e Joo [..]
€ 162.600,00
Amount including auction fees

Salvator Rosa

San Girolamo nel deserto
€ 157.600,00
Amount including auction fees

Scuola veneta dell’inizio del XVII secolo Figura di cavaliere di Malta [..]
€ 156.350,00
Amount including auction fees

Viviano Codazzi (Valsassina 1604- Roma 1670) Arrivo a palazzo
€ 150.100,00
Amount including auction fees

Giorgio Vasari (Arezzo 1511-Firenze 1574) Allegoria dell’Autunno
€ 150.100,00
Amount including auction fees

Lluís Borrassà

San Giovanni Battista e San Giovanni Evangelista
€ 143.850,00
Amount including auction fees

Maestro di Marradi (documentato in Italia tra il 1498 e il 1513) L'arr [..]
€ 137.600,00
Amount including auction fees

Gioacchino Assereto (Genova 1600-1649) Sacrificio di Isacco
€ 122.600,00
Amount including auction fees

Giulio Cesare Procaccini

Sacra Famiglia con San Giovannino
€ 122.600,00
Amount including auction fees

Gioacchino Assereto (Genova 1600-1649) Isacco benedice Giacobbe
€ 120.100,00
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Juan Dò (Jativa 1604 - Napoli 1656), già Maestro dell'Annuncio ai past [..]
€ 112.600,00
Amount including auction fees

Domenico Fiasella (Sarzana 1589-1669) Alessandro Magno riceve omaggio [..]
€ 112.600,00
Amount including auction fees

Alessandro Magnasco (Genova 1667-1749) Cristo Sana il Paralitico Crist [..]
€ 110.100,00
Amount including auction fees

Vittore Ghislandi

Ritratto di giovane
€ 102.600,00
Amount including auction fees

Jan Roos (Anversa 1591 - Genova 1638) Orfeo incanta gli animali
€ 100.100,00
Amount including auction fees

Pieter I Coecke Van Aelst (Aalst 1502 - Bruxelles 1550) Adorazione dei [..]
€ 100.100,00
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Davide Ghirlandaio (Firenze 1452-1525), attribuito a Madonna in trono [..]
€ 100.100,00
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Pietro Bellotto (1725 – 1805), attribuito a Veduta del Canal Grande a [..]
€ 93.850,00
Amount including auction fees

Bartolomeo Guidobono (Savona 1654 - Torino 1709) Il viaggio di Giacobb [..]
€ 87.600,00
Amount including auction fees

Artista fiammingo attivo in Italia nel XVII secolo Venere e Adone con [..]
€ 87.600,00
Amount including auction fees

Scuola di Anversa, XVI secolo Madonna in trono con Bambino in un inter [..]
€ 87.600,00
Amount including auction fees

Giovanni Domenico Lombardi

Battaglie navali tra Turchi e Cavalieri di Malta
€ 89.700,00
Amount including auction fees

Gaetano Gandolfi

Busto di vecchio barbuto con il capo chino
€ 81.350,00
Amount including auction fees

Gaetano Gandolfi

Busto d’uomo con il capo volto verso l’alto
€ 81.350,00
Amount including auction fees

Valerio Castello

Miracolo di San Domenico
€ 77.600,00
Amount including auction fees

Pittore caravaggesco intorno al 1630 Giuditta e la fantesca con la tes [..]
€ 75.100,00
Amount including auction fees

Giacomo Guardi (Venezia 1764-1835) attribuito a Veduta della chiesa di [..]
€ 72.600,00
Amount including auction fees

Bernardo Cavallino (Napoli 1616 - 1656) Guarigione di Tobia
€ 70.100,00
Amount including auction fees

Scuola emiliana del XVII secolo San Sebastiano
€ 70.100,00
Amount including auction fees

Francesco Zucchi

Testa composta con fiori
€ 67.600,00
Amount including auction fees

Antoon van Dyck (Anversa 1599 - Londra 1641), seguace di Ritratto di c [..]
€ 65.100,00
Amount including auction fees

Scuola emiliana del XVII secolo Ritratto di cieco
€ 65.100,00
Amount including auction fees

Scuola caravaggesca romana del XVII secolo Cristo innanzi a Caifa
€ 65.100,00
Amount including auction fees

Abraham Janssens (1575 - 1632) Ecce Homo
€ 62.600,00
Amount including auction fees

Sophie Rude

Adone
€ 62.600,00
Amount including auction fees
Mon, 18 Mar 2024 11:58:43 +0000
La Clementina by Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo
On March 28, 2024, Cambi Auction House's appointment dedicated to 19th- and 20th-century Paintings returns with numerous new works of art. Among the most important works [..]
Tue, 12 Mar 2024 15:18:12 +0000
Alessandro Arseni: a life devoted to Philately
Alessandro Arseni has devoted his entire life to philatelic study and research, especially on the world of nineteenth-century mail and the Risorgimento. A dedication and [..]
Mon, 04 Mar 2024 10:31:53 +0000
Vincenzo Coronelli: Friar, cosmographer and argonaut of La Serenissima Republic of Venice
The event dedicated to "Antique and Rare Books, Antique Prints, Views and Maps" is approaching. On Thursday, March 14, 2024, at the prestigious venue of Castello Mackenzie [..]
Contacts
Gianni Minozzi

Gianni Minozzi

Specialist
Martina Minetti

Martina Minetti

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