After Federico Barocci, Rest on the flight to Egypt

A nice later copy of the "Rest on the Flight to Egypt" by Federico Barocci from about 1570, now in the Vatican Museum. For sale at Rops Auctions on 1 February as simply an "18th Century Tableau", without attribution, country or even the subject. At 60 by 50 cm, it's a nice size as well. Estimated at 1,300 to 1,500 Euro, I don't know if it will vastly exceed its estimation, but it certainly would have more of a chance with a correct (or more thorough) description. UPDATE: sold for 1,600 Euro, as expected.

It's a fairly common and popular painting, as can be seen in this smaller but better copy, sold in Sweden in 2007 for 6,600 Euro. Other versions listed at Artvalue.com are one in Amsterdam for more than 5,000 Euro in 2004, one in Milan in 2006 for 4,800 Euro, and a rather dark and poor one in London in 2009 for £4,500.

A more expensive version was sold at Christie's as 17th Century Roman School (£40,000!), while less interesting versions made £1,375 at Christie's, and £2,160 at Bonhams (a reverse copy, so probably after a print). The latter two seem to indicate that the copy for sale here is certainly not overpriced, unless it is a much more recent one than those two.