"Flemish School" is copy of Pellegrino Tibaldi

At Sotheby's they sell on 29 April in the Old Masters auction a "Flemish School, 17th century", "Venus and Minerva in a landscape", a small (23 by 17) oil on paper estimated at £8,000 to £12,000. UPDATE: sold for £10,000, so either I was mistaken or the buyer didn't read my blog first :-)

This seems a rather ridiculously high price for a mediocre copy of a painting by (circle of) Pellegrino Tibaldi from the late 16th or early 17th century, now in the Rijksmuseum. Perhaps the auctioneers thought it was an original Flemish invention? Anyway, compared to the other things one can buy for this kind of money, it really isn't worth it.