Get rich reselling old art, or at least try to make a decent living from it: buy a painting
in Spain for (hammer price) 2,250 Euro, and try to sell it at
Lempertz in Germany for an estimated 28,000 to 32,000 Euro! It's in general a very nice auction (as usual at Lempertz) which warrants some further blog posts, but this painting, while bought under value, seems to be somewhat overestimated now.
Or seriously overestimated even, as it is a copy after an engraving of a work by Rubens, not an original composition by an unknown master. While skillfully painted and worth perhaps 5,000 Euro, I don't see why anyone would pay 30,000 Euro for an anonymous copy after an engraving after Rubens... The above is from the version in the
National Gallery, a completed painting (part of a triptych) can be found in Mechelen.
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