In a secluded corner of Vienna's Volksgarten, a fountain gurgles at the foot of the Empress Elisabeth monument.

Hans Bitterlich immortalized the murdered monarch in 1907 in white marble, both gracefully and severely.

The auction house in Kinsky is now coming up with a smaller version of this figure in its "Big Summer Auction": The 90 centimeter high statue shows "Sisi" in a lifelike manner, entwined with flowers and with a book (estimate 150,000 to 300,000 euros).

In addition to antiques, five other categories will be appearing from June 28th to 30th, with the old masters making up the top lot.

A “Madonna with Child and Johannesknaben” comes from Lucas Cranach the Elder, about whose time at the Viennese court the local Kunsthistorisches Museum is showing an exhibition.

The unpublished panel painting, measuring 76 by 59 centimetres, appears from a family estate in Vienna, where it was for around a hundred years.

A picture of the Virgin Mary by Pietro Perugino served as a model.

The estimate is between 250,000 and 500,000 euros.

A highlight of Nordic art is the showpiece "The Judgment of Midas" by Jan Brueghel the Elder.

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and Hans Rottenhammer, who specializes in small formats. With oil paint on copper plate, the half-naked bodies of the gods shine in a forest clearing (50,000/100,000).

By Rembrandt's pupil Nicolaes Maes, a "boy with a dog and a bird at a fountain" comes up for auction, which bow and arrow identify as Cupid (35,000/70,000).

Friedrich Gauermann's 1843 painting "A rural farmer's shed with cattle rushing in" leads the 19th century lots with an estimated value of 100,000 to 200,000 euros.

Harmony radiates from the “Dutch Landscape with Herd of Cattle” with which Ferdinand Waldmüller copied Adriaen van de Velde in 1822 (25,000/50,000).

Orientalist subjects such as the "slave traders" by an unknown artist have an unspeakable effect today, but demand is particularly high among collectors from the Middle East (25,000/50,000).

The classic modern section attracts with a focus on Alfons Walde.

"After Vespers" is the title of his encounter between two women.

The almost square painting brings out the colors of the costumes against a dark background (250,000/500,000).

In contrast, the mood of "Eislauf", in which the Kitzbühler sketched a children's dance around 1920, is cheerful (180,000/360,000).

The special paper works on offer include Klimt's nude drawing "Reclining on the Ground" and Chagall's gouache "Fleurs y Femme en rêve" (100,000/200,000 each).

There is action in the contemporaries, for example in Hans Hartung's tableau from 1980, whose violent vertical strokes and scratches are reminiscent of a downpour (120,000/240,000).

In contrast, the untitled late work of Willem de Kooning has a lyrical effect (80,000/160,000).

Spilled blood and red acrylic paint give Hermann Nitsch's 2.3 meter wide relict picture from 2001 its expressiveness (70,000/ 140,000).

Thirty years ago, Xenia Hausner specialized in striking large portraits.

In 1994, the former stage designer painted a colleague from the theater with the actress Rosemarie Fendel (35,000/70,000).

Martin Kippenberger had a bizarre wooden sculpture carved with the "Opel Manta dashboard".

The stained replica of a car part after the accident has a dent where the driver's head hit (25,000/50,000).