DALLAS, TX.- Paris as Maurice Utrillo experienced it on the streets of Montmartre headlines Heritage Auctions’ June 8 European Art Auction with his Cabaret du Lapin Agile (est. $100,000-$150,000), a scene of Aristide Bruant’s celebrated nightclub.

Views of other Parisian landmarks by Edouard-Léon Cortès, François Gall, and Antoine Blanchard set the stage for Ignace Spiridon’s painting Sappho, a depiction of an infamous Parisian courtesan gliding down a staircase, and showing quite a bit of her silk stockings in the process (est. $15,000-$25,000). Spiridon’s painting has a fascinating history. It represented the artist at the 1893 Chicago’s World Columbian Exposition, advertised a Broadway play that was at the center of a sensational indecency trial; and belonged to actress Ronnie Claire Edwards, who was best known for playing Corabeth Walton Godsey on the TV series The Waltons.

The banks of the Seine where Parisians spend quiet afternoons form the subject of two landscapes in the present sale: Maximilien Luce’s Les bords de la Seine près de la Roche-Guyon (est. $10,000-$15,000) and Pierre Eugène Montézin’s Peniches à Saint-Mammès (est. $12,000-$18,000).

A particular prize of the auction is Henri Martin’s study for Le Sulfatage, one panel of his luminous mural cycle for the Chambre de Commerce et d’Industrie in Beziers, France. It depicts a worker in the vineyards of that region (the model was the artist’s son the painter Jacques Martin-Ferrières), and is painted with Martin’s characteristic use of vivid color and pointillist technique (est. $60,000-$80,000).

Another featured work originating in the south of France is Aristide Maillol’s Petit torse (est. $60,000-$80,000), a sculpture that looks back to antiquity while incorporating modern formal elements that characterize the artist’s approach to the female figure.

A choice group of Old Masters produced in Italy includes Abraham Brueghel’s sumptuous Neapolitan period Still life of fruit and flowers in a footed gadrooned silver vase with a spaniel looking on from 1685 (est. $30,000-$50,000). From the famous Brueghel family of Flemish artists, Abraham trained in Antwerp but moved to Italy where he remained permanently and flourished as a still-life artist. The Venetian painter Giuseppe Nogari’s Bearded old man wearing a fur-trimmed cloak with gold clasp (est. $20,000-$30,000) is an exceptionally fine example of the artist’s mature style.

Two romantic views of the Villa Torlonia near Rome by the outstanding German landscapist Oswald Achenbach, Gardens and fountain of the Villa Torlonia, Frascati, Rome (est. $20,000-$30,000) and View from high in the gardens of Villa Torlonia, Frascati, Rome (est. $20,000-$30,000) record the lush gardens of this Neoclassical villa (where John Singer Sargent painted a generation later). Achenbach, who was one of the foremost landscapists of the Düsseldorf School of his day, found inspiration in the towering poplars, terraces and fountains of this elegant estate.