In a fairly well-stuffed auction at
Balclis, Spain, on 20 May 2015, they sell a "16th century Spanish School Virgin with the Child", estimated at 3,000 Euro.
Nothing wrong with that description (and probably that estimate), but it is nice to see how the composition is clearly taken from Jan van Eyck, "Virgin and Child with Canon Van der Paele", from the Groeningemuseum (relevant detail pictured). Early Netherlandish art was very popular and influential in Spain (through people like Juan de Flandes, but also directly), and paintings like this one are the evidence of this.
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