Interesting "Collection Lucinis" in Stockholm

Over the course of a few days this week (9 to 11 June 2016), Magasin 5 (from Stockholm) sells the so-called "Lucinis Collection", a series of 162 mainly 17th- and 18th-century Western European paintings of reasonable quality and interest. Many are copies or works by followers (and/or damaged paintings), but all seem authentic and many have enough charm and quality to be interesting. I'll just discuss a few here.

A Dutch school painting of a horse, is probably the most popular so far, with as of writing 32 bids going for more than double the estimate. It is dated 1667 and monogrammed HR. It reminds me a bit of Philips Wouwerman, but is much less anatomically correct, more evocative, and looks to me more English than Dutch. I can't find a possible artist for it, but a few others probably did (or simply like the painting of course).

Perhaps the most valuable is a work by Willem Van Aelst (Dutch, 1627-1683), a very well executed still life of dead game. Estimated at 850 Euro only, it has only received 5 bids so far and with the highest being 430 Euro. The work has some damage, but this should be fairly easy to restore. It is unusual to fine a dead bird by Van Aelst without any decor, but the quality of the painting is good enough to attribute it firmly to him anyway (and the big black field around the bird makes it more modern looking than many still lifes otherwise). Should be worth some 2,000 Euro I guess.

Perhaps the least well described is the "19th century Italian School" Salomé with the head of John the Baptist, estimated at 325 Euro and currently with 4 bids at 185 Euro. The gruesome depiction (even more so than the already bloody story makes necessary) looks like a (copy after a) 16th century Flemish work instead.

Examples of similar depictions can be found with Adriaen Key (ca. 1575, pictured, from the Rouen Museum). Also the ca. 1630 anonymous Antwerp work is similar in general conception. I couldn't find any 19th century Italian works in this vein. The general style of the work for sale also more closely matches the second-rate painters active in Antwerp in the 17th century.

A very nice work is this "Italian School, 18th century" Mystical Marriage, estimated at 430 Euro and currently with three bids at 260 Euro. It is a copy after Correggio (bottom picture), and while being somewhat rosy and weaker in execution, it still is an attractive painting with a low price.

Finally, there's a work attributed to Gillis Mostaert, an Agony in the Garden. It is highly unusual in showing a defeated, despairing Christ, without any support by angels. Normally we see him either questioning, pleading, crying out, or being supported by angels, but never like this. It seems also like a mix-up between the scene of Christ on the Cold Stone (part of the Ecce Homo story) and the Gethsemane scene depicted here. I guess that the composition didn't become popular because, while people liked a work depicting Christ in physical pain (as a human), they didn't like one of him being in psychical pain (which made him not only human in the flesh, but also in the mind, which was not befitting for a son of God).

Estimated at 1,100 Euro, so far only 175 Euro has been bid. This one should end a lot higher, as it clearly is an Antwerp painting from around 1600-1650, a work of considerable quality and originality, perhaps based on an unknown work by Mostaert or someone from the Francken family.

UPDATE: sold for 2,800 Euro, still not too much for this interesting work.