Jackson's, from Iowa, sells on 17 November 2015 a "Continental School, 19th cenury" still life, estimated at $400 to $600 (lot 367).
The topic and style remind me strongly of the work of Hippolyte Pierre Delanoy (1849-1899), a lesser known French painter whose still lifes used some of the same elements as in this work, e.g. the peacock feathers, the book, religious imagery, and the attention to detail and depiction of metal objects. If it is by Delanoy, it should fetch about ten times the estimate. Even as an anonymous work, the estimation is fairly conservative for what is an attractive academical work.
UPDATE: sold for $425, someone may have gotten a bargain (or I was again way too optimistic).
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