The Facts
Millon's MASTERS sale, taking place on November 24, 2026, in Paris, will present 43 lots spanning from Middle Kingdom Egypt to early 20th-century silverwork. The auction is anchored by three private collections: the Vendée collection of Monsieur D., the furniture and objets d'art collection of Monsieur A., and the collection of Egyptologist Ibram Harari. The top lot is a commode delivered on May 8, 1764, by Gilles Joubert, cabinetmaker to the Crown Furniture Repository, for the bedroom of the comte d'Artois (future Charles X) at the Château de Fontainebleau, estimated at €80,000–120,000. Other highlights include a Herri met de Bles landscape with Saint Christopher (€50,000–70,000), a Jacques Stella Virgin and Child (€50,000–70,000), and three Flandrin family portraits (€20,000–30,000 each). The sale also features a 17th-century Trapani mirror, a Paul Landowski bronze Icare (€10,000–12,000), and a 200-piece silver flatware service by Georges Fouquet-Lapar (€15,000–18,000).
The Signal
This sale underscores Millon's strategy of curating tightly themed, provenance-driven auctions that appeal to both seasoned collectors and institutions. The Joubert commode, with its documented royal provenance and free-circulation certificate, represents a rare opportunity for a museum or private collector to acquire a piece of French crown furniture outside the national collections. The inclusion of the Flandrin portraits, still in the descendants' hands, and the rediscovered Stella painting, add scholarly depth. For collectors of classical decorative arts, the sale offers a concentrated survey of 18th-century Parisian craftsmanship and 17th-century curiosity cabinet objects, with estimates that remain accessible relative to comparable museum-quality pieces.
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- Artists: Herri met de Bles, Pieter II Brueghel, Jean-Léon Gérôme, Stanislas Lépine, Théodore Rousseau, Narcisse Diaz de la Peña, Victor Dupré, Jacques Stella, Hippolyte Flandrin, Paul Flandrin, Paul Landowski, Gilles Joubert, Louis Michel Lefèvre, Roger Vandercruse Lacroix, Jean-Joseph de Saint-Germain, Georges Fouquet-Lapar
- People: Ibram Harari, comte d'Artois, Charles X, Louis XV, vicomte Étienne de Villiers du Terrage, Pauline de Villiers du Terrage, Anatole Auvray
- Auction Houses: Millon
- Museums: Metropolitan Museum, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, Musée Landowski de Boulogne-Billancourt
- Locations: Paris, Fontainebleau
- Prices: €80,000–120,000, €50,000–70,000, €30,000–40,000, €10,000–15,000, €10,000–12,000, €20,000–30,000, €20,000–25,000, €15,000–18,000
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