Expanding the panels’ historical ties to New York society, the largest existing ensemble of Dupas’s panels, depicting The Chariot of Poseidon, was donated to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1976 and has since remained in the institution’s collection.

Sotheby’s has had the privilege of auctioning a number of notable works from the Forbes family’s extensive collections. In 2008, Sotheby’s offered the legendary Forbes Collection of Fabergé, which was famously purchased in a private sale by Russian industrialist Mr. Victor Vekselberg prior to its scheduled auction. In 2010, Sotheby’s held a sale dedicated to the Forbes Collection of Antique Toys, featuring important toy boats, soldiers, motorcycles and classic board games lovingly gathered over nearly four decades by Malcolm S. Forbes and his sons.