NEW YORK, N.Y.- Christie’s announces its upcoming auctions of Old Master Paintings and Old Master Drawings on January 25-26, 2012, offering a superb selection of rarities, rediscoveries and masterpieces. The sales will be led by a graceful tondo painting of The Virgin Nursing the Christ Child by Hans Memling, one of two works by this artist remaining in private hands, and a dazzling, light-filled oil sketch of The Arrival of Henri III at the Villa Contarini (c. 1744–45) by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, a major work made to commemorate an historic event. The sales are also distinguished by the inclusion of works by Peter Paul Rubens, Frans Hals, Thomas de Keyser, Gerrit Dou and Giuseppe Arcimboldo that are fresh to the market, having come to light again after generations