Wednesday, 28 January 2015

From follower of Teniers to Cornelis de Wael back to follower of Teniers the Younger?

So, a nice, typical "after Teniers" painting is for sale in France now. Better than the countless mediocre "after Teniers" that litter every auction apparently, I tried to see if I could find more info on this one.

Turns out that it was sold (rather dirty) in April for 1,900 Euro (as follower of Teniers) at Lasseron, only to reappear cleaned (as above) at Aguttes in September as a painting by Cornelis De Wael, estimated at 5,000 to 6,000 Euro. Nice ROI, but no one bought it...

So, now it's once again for sale (third thime in less than a year!), back to the old attribution of Follower of Teniers, an with an estimate of 2,500 to 3,500 Euro (original price, costs, and cleaning costs probably), at Doullens, 1 February. Shows that not every sleeper and fast profit works out so well in the end...

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