Description: painting

Hagelstam, Finnish auctioneer, sells on 9 June 2015 a "Painting". It's an oil (on canvas apparently) of 75 by 55 cm, estimated at 400 Euro. And that, together with the image (large size, high resolution, no complaints there), is all the information you get!

It is a nice "Holy Family with a Saint", Flemish Baroque style, and if it is authentic (and not 19th century), the estimate is cheap as chips. The painting looks very "thin", with the canvas visible through the paint layer nearly everywhere, and the painting deteriorated at the sides: I wonder if it hasn't been relined. The style reminds me of Balthasar Beschey. In any case, even as an anonymous work it should be worth at least 4,000 Euro, with the chance that further research will reveal even more about it and may pinpoint a specific artist for it. UPDATE: sold for 400 Euro, someone got a massive bargain there. I'll keep an eye open whether this appears on another auction soon or not...