Sunday 24 May 2015

Another follower of Coxcie?

Turpin, French auction house, sells on 31 May 2015 an Ecce Homo by "Flemish School, 17th century, follower of Coxcie", estimated at 1,000 to 1,500 Euro. It is a different composition than the Coxcie Ecce Homo I presented two days ago though.

Dulwich Picture Gallery has the same composition, but in a worse copy (condition and artistic), attributed to a British painter of the 16th or 17th century. They presume that the original is late 16th century, and from Northern Italy, not Flanders.

Yet another version was sold at Van Ham a few years ago, attributed to Frans Francken II. It sold in 2007 for 850 Euro.

A better version than the previous two was sold at Christie's in 2003 for $2,100 as "Follower of Coxie". It doesn't have the quality of the one for sale now though. The current one seems somewhat underestimated. Who painted the original and what happened to it is unclear, just like with the other Coxcie "Ecce Homo".

UPDATE: thanks to a Hampel auction from 30 June 2016, it has become clear to me that the origin of this work is indeed Italian, a painting by Jacopo Ligozzi, which was popularized in Flanders by an engraving from Sadeler from 1596. Whether the one for sale is the original or also a copy is not clear, it seems to lack the fourth person, and doesn't look good enough to me. Could be a Ligozzi workshop copy of course. Estimate 20,000 to 25,000 Euro though!

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