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21 Anthony van Dyck St Jerome’s aged body contrasts sharply with his powerful pose. Because the saint’s attributes – the skull, prayer book and sur- rounding landscape – are rendered in less detail, the viewer’s gaze focuses primarily on the figure. The sincere emotionality imparted by van Dyck to his religious motifs gives them substance and character. This painting, from a private collection, may once have been in the legendary art collection of van Dyck’s re- nowned mentor, Peter Paul Rubens. Despite all that he borrowed from Rubens, van Dyck de- veloped his own unmistakeable style, emulat- ed by subsequent generations. St Jerome in the wilderness. Oil on panel. 47.1 × 40.4 cm. Sold for CHF 2.44 million. Roelant Savery Savery’s small tondo of a cow is a fine example of the stand-alone depictions of animals that be- came fashionable in Holland at the beginning of the 17th century. Cow reclining in a landscape. 1604. Oil on panel. D 17.5 cm. Sold for CHF 128 000 Filippino Lippi Filippino Lippi’s depiction of St Benedict in a classical architectural niche reveals a familiarity with composi- tions often found in Italian frescoes and panel pain- tings. ‘This small-format panel painting is a surprising and fascinating early masterpiece of the Florentine Renaissance, from the hand of the still-young Filippi- no Lippi, who in the following decades was to deve- lop into one of the most important Renaissance ar- tists in Italy and a harbinger of Florentine Mannerism.’ (Prof. Dr Gaudenz Freuler) Saint Benedict. Circa 1470–75. Oil tempera on panel. 63.3 × 23.3 cm. Sold for CHF 134 000 Jacob Jordaens Venus and Adonis are among the most famous lovers in art history. This life-sized depiction by the Flem- ish Baroque painter Jordaens from his later creative period is characterised by warm colours; expres- sive brushwork intensifies the drama. Jordaens fol- lows in the great footsteps of Titian, Veronese and Rubens who all treated this subject inspired by Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Venus and Adonis. Oil on canvas. 197.5 × 155 cm. Sold for CHF 183 000 Circle of Annibale Carracci A ‘Portrait of a Young Man with a Lace Col- lar’ was the subject of a lively bidding war in the March auction. Portrait. Oil on canvas. 40.2 × 33.2 cm. Sold for CHF 226 000