Salome presented with the head of Saint John the Baptist by Peter Paul Rubens – $23.5m (£19.1m) at Sotheby’s.
A spread from the album of illustrations by Jean- Baptiste Oudry for an edition of the Fables of Jean de La Fontaine. The album made at $2.2m (£1.79m) at Christie’s.
A painting by Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) from the collection of the divorcing couple Mark Fisch and Rachel Davidson led the latest series of Old Master sales in New York.