Sir Peter Paul Rubens Gaspar de Crayer Pieter de Hooch Madrid Museum to Combine Condoms and Art Estimated as High as $41 Million, Rembrandt Going to Bid at Christie’s Caravaggio Going on View at Chicago’s Art Institute Vienna’s Albertina Evacuates Artworks Rediscovered Etching Believed to Be a Rubens

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Top prices went for works by Pieter de Hooch ($1.65 million), Gerard Ter Borch ($1.59 million), and Peter Paul Rubens ($842,500). Even third-string Old Masters were sold off, such as Jean-Baptiste Greuze's Girl With Lamb and a portrait of a mother and two children by Gaspar de Crayer. The Greuze went for $182,500 (est. $60–80,000), and the de Crayer sold for $254,500, more than four times its low estimate.

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