2003: the highest auction price for an antique painting in France!

Louis-Nicolas van Blarenberghe’s “Le siege de Yorktown” and “La prise de Yorktown” (1786), Rochambeau Collection.

Auction price: 1 million euros.

Fifth auction price over 1 million euros obtained at Cheverny.

learn more

2002: the highest auction price reached in the French art market ...

Charles Willson Peale’s “George Washington” (1782). Rochambeau Collection.
Sold for 4.4 millions euros, or, including premium: €5 189 360 or 34 039 970 francs.

Four auction prices attracting more than 10 million francs reached in Cheverny.

learn more

2001: the highest auction price for a vintage painting in France!

Cranach the Elder’s “Venus und Amor” (1532): sold for 14.5 million francs, or, including premium: 16 million francs or €2 448 450.

Three auction prices over 10 million francs obtained in Cheverny.

learn more

2000: the highest auction price in the French art market ...

Vlaminck’s “Voiles à Chatou” (1905), hammer price 11.4 million francs, or, including premium: 12,627,000 francs or €1,924,988.

Second sale for more than 10 million francs at Cheverny.

1999: the only sale of over 10 million francs outside of Paris!

Monet’s “Falaise d’Etretat” (1883):   

Painting kept in the same family since 1919 and sold for 14 million francs, or, including premium: 15,519,600 francs or €2,326,372.

“... the only auctioneer in France to have achieved,
5 years in a row, 5 auction prices for paintings of over
1 million euros...”

... "Art and Manners at Cheverny: each year the most important auction of the whole provincial region takes place”...

Other sales ?

The Barbara collections, 2 Riesener commodes, the stairs of the Eiffel Tower, a merry-go-round, Picassos from his publisher, a Ferrari 450, a ceramic stove from Chambord, a papal cap, the scarf of Louis XVI...

And many others... See our sales reports

Our press clippings and television coverage tells the story even better than we can.

Media reviews