Yet another copy of a Francken (or more likely De Caullery) Golgotha

A short note about a Vanderkindere auction (Brussels, 23 February 2016). The "Circle of Francken" crucifixion is estimated at 1,400 to 1,600 Euro.

It is another version of the painting type I already discussed recently in this blog post, where the conclusion was that this type is more likely the work of the De Caullery Workshop than of the Francken Workshop. This is a fairly well executed example and should easily fetch the estimate.

UPDATE: a blog reader alerted me to yet another version of the same work, now for sale at Spanish auction  house Setdart, for 18 February 2016, estimated at a whopping 18,000 to 20,000 Euro! Needless to say that it will never fetch that much, considering that it is a good but far from brilliant version. It's at first glance a better version than the Vanderkindere one, but the larger image (almost every picture on my blog can be seen as a larger image!) shows that the faces, the white highlights, and other details are done rather crudely. Condition seems good though, but getting 5,000 Euro for this would be a big success.

UPDATE 2: sold for 1,500 Euro, as expected.

UPDATE 3: now for sale at DVC, from Ghent, as "School or Circle of Francken" and estimated at 1,000 to 2,000 Euro. Someone seems to have bought this with hopes of something better (though I wouldn't know what exactly, it didn't look like a real Caullery or Francken in the first place) and will now be lucky to get their money back.