Three picks from next week's Old Masters auctions at Sotheby’s New York

While Sotheby’s Old Masters week centres on the $25m-plus Danaë by Orazio Gentileschi (above), to be offered in its evening sale on 28 January, a number of other less heralded pictures also deserve attention.First up, on 27 January, is the dramatic Crowning with Thorns by the seldom encountered French Caravaggist Valentin de Boulogne (around 1591-1632) from the estate of former Sotheby’s head Alfred Taubman. The artist is best appreciated for his genre scenes of gallants and we