Also during Wednesday\u2019s sale at Christie\u2019s, Canaletto\u2019s Venice, the Bucintoro at the Molo on Ascension Day (around 1754) sold for $30.5m with fees. A different painting of the same view of the Venetian Lagoon broke the artist\u2019s record<\/a> at auction in July when it sold for \u00a331.9m at Christie\u2019s London.<\/p>\n During Christie\u2019s Old Master and British Drawings sale on Thursday, a miniature drawing of a foot recently attributed to Michaelangelo<\/a> sold for a record-breaking $27.2m with fees. The five-inch red chalk drawing is believed to be a study for the Sistine Chapel and is fresh to market, which likely helped it hop well above its $2m high estimate. The consignor is located in Northern California, and the drawing has been in his family since the late 18th century. The previous record for a drawing by Michelangelo was \u20ac23.2m with fees, set at Christie\u2019s Paris in 2022.<\/p>\n Rembrandt, Young Lion Resting Courtesy Sotheby\u2019s<\/p>\n One of the buzziest lots of the week was Rembrandt\u2019s Young Lion Resting<\/a>, a small chalk drawing that sold at Sotheby’s New York on Wednesday for $17.8m will fees. The drawing hammered at $15m\u2014on the low end of its estimate range\u2014but is still the highest price ever fetched for a Rembrandt drawing at auction. The work was consigned by Thomas S. Kaplan and Daphne Recanati Kaplan. The billionaire and his wife have built the largest privately-owned collection of Rembrandts in the world, and Young Lion Resting was the first work by the artist the couple acquired. All proceeds from the sale will go toward Panthera, the Kaplans\u2019 charity for wild cats. The work is the last of six known drawings of lions by Rembrandt in private hands. Others are in the Mus\u00e9e du Louvre in Paris, the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam, and two in the British Museum. In his newsletter The Gray Market<\/a>, Tim Schneider reported the drawing was purchased by Dutch dealer Salomon Lilian \u201con behalf of a big collector\u201d.<\/p>\n A rare Hebrew illuminated manuscript, dating back to 15th-century Vienna, sold for $6.4m at Sotheby\u2019s on Thursday. Called the Rothschild Vienna Mahzor, the book of High Holiday prayers was acquired by the famed banking family it was named for in 1812 in Nuremberg and was passed down through generations of the family. However, the manuscript was seized during the Holocaust and sent to the Austrian National Library where, according to Sotheby\u2019s, it was unrecognised as Nazi loot. The mahzor only resurfaced publicly in 2021 when it was loaned for an exhibition dedicated to the Viennese branch of the Rothschilds\u2014the family hadn\u2019t even known the manuscript was in the library. 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