"Dutch Master, 17th century" is copy after John Martin (England, 1789-1854)

Dr. Hüll, German auction house with a rather strange name, sells on 12 may 2016 a "Dutch Master, 17th century" Crucifixion, estimated at 1,500 Euro.

Which is one country and two centuries off. The painting is a copy (I suppose) from one of the more famous works by John Martin, an English painter who was very popular in his day. The original is kept at the Yale Center for British Art.

The image at the auction site isn't god enough to judge whether it can be an original by Martin or a copy, but the latter is a lot more likely. The other images, of the remnants of an old label at the back of the painting, show that it had been bought or owned by a Rev. Charles Maltby (?) in 1864, again pointing to an English origin of the work. Whether that label, on a relined work, is original to the painting is impossible to tell.

As an original, it should be worth 15,000 Euro instead of the estimate (although it has had some serious damage, so perhaps that's a tad optimistic). For a copy, the estimate seems about right. For a comparable 17th c. Dutch work, it would have been a bargain.