Christie’s (October 26)

J.J.J. Tissot, “A Fete Day at Brighton” (c. 1876-77). Estimate: $3 million to $5 million. As much as a love letter to Tissot’s married paramour, this painting captures a particularly late-19th-century moment. The flying flags represent Prussia, the British Royal Navy, and the United States. After Kathleen died in England in 1882, Tissot fled back to Paris to paint religious illustrations.

Ludwig Deutsch, “The Orange Sellers, Cairo” (1886). Estimate: $400,000 to $600,000. This Austrian born, Paris-trained artist painted numerous studies of this one image after traveling to Egypt in 1886. The hyper-real painting of a man haggling over oranges with female sellers looks like a photograph. Deutsch’s paintings would serve as dispatches for armchair travelers at the salon of 1900 in which he showed.

Sotheby’s (October 25)

William Bouguereau, “Le Baiser” (1863). Estimate: $600,000 to $800,000. After traveling to Italy, Bouguereau was inspired to paint low-key, naturalistic versions of the Madonna and child. Even this picture of maternal bliss incorporates the new global marketplace. The kissing toddler holds an orange, similar to the ones found in the bazaars painted by Deutsch.

Giovanni Boldini, “Portrait of a Lady, Lina Bilitis, With Two Pekinese” (1913). Estimate: $900,000 to $1.2 million. A women in black, dog in hand, wears a green sash that is picked up by a frantically painted copse of trees behind her. As today, women of a certain class liked to stroll with their small dogs, creating an entire genre of style called chic et chien. Everything but her face and torso is painted in a seeming frenzy, making her poise appear even more deliberative.