Copy after Rubens "Tomyris"

Hampel sells on 1 July 2015 a "Flemish School, 17th century" painting of "The Head of John the Baptist brought to Queen Marianne", estimated at 3,500 to 4,500 Euro.

It is yet another fanciful description of a copy after a painting I already discussed in an earlier blog, a Rubens from Boston with the "head of Cyrus brought to Queen Tomyris". It is again a reversed copy, after an engraving, and not good enough to justify the estimate.