Hampel sells on 7 April 2016 a "Circle of Hugo Van der Goes" Descent from the cross, estimated at 40,000 to 60,000 Euro.
It is actually a copy after a lost panel by Rogier Van der Weyden, and closer in style to him than to Van der Goes. The
Museum of Modern Art (!) in Le Havre has a very good copy of the same work.
Compared to the one at
Christie's, which fetched $20,000 and had the wings, but was of somewhat lower quality, I guess the estimate here is about right, but the attribution isn't.
UPDATE: sold for 36,000 Euro, so the estimate was indeed about right.
UPDATE 2: strangely enough, again for sale at
Hampel on 22 september 2016 with now a 20,000 to 25,000 Euro estimate! Either the buyer realised that he didn't have gold in his hands after all, or the sale eentually didn't happen for some reason?
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