Flight into Egypt, after Maerten de Vos

Koller, from Switzerland, sell on 16 September a "Flemish School, late 16th century" Flight into Egypt, an oil on copper estimated at 950 to 1,900 Euro.

It is a copy after an engraving by Maerten de Vos. A design for it is kept in the Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum in Braunschweig, and is dated ca. 1580.

The engraving was relatively popular, and other paintings after it are known, e.g. the above which follows the original less closely, attributed to Adriaan de Weerdt and dated 1580-1590 (both images and the info come from the RKD).

Typical in copies after engravings is that every artist can choose his own colours, which makes for interesting comparisons sometimes. The one for sale now is probably doomed to remain anonymous, as the quality is adequate but not outstanding enough to point to any individual artist. The estimate seems about right, I can't see this not making 1,000 Euro. UPDATE: sold for 5,000 Swiss Francs or nearly 5,000 Euro, so way above estimate. Seems overpriced to me.