After Simon Vouet

At Brussels Art Auctions, 31 March 2015, they sell a drawing as "Anonymous, 17th or 18th century", "The Circumcision" estimated at 300 to 500. With drawings of this kind, there is always the chance that it is a design by some famous artist for a painting, and the composition and so on was quite accomplished, so worth looking further.

In this case, it is a reversed drawing of Simon Vouet's "The Presentation in the Temple". It most likely isn't a drawing by Vouet though, but a drawing after him, and probably after an etching, considering the reversion of the work (or a preparation for a "correct", non-reversed engraving of course). Probably worth no more or less than the estimate (too bad about the crease or line through the middle of the drawing though). UPDATE: sold for 380 Euro, as expected.