De Wit, from Oostende in Belgium, sells a "Nice antique religious painting" (lot 743), a small oil on copper (23 by 16) estimated at 100 to 200 Euro.
It is a version of one of the most copied paintings by Jan Gossaert, "Christ on the Cold Stone"or Christ as the Man of Sorrow. The above version, from the Museum of Krakow, may be the original. The one for sale clearly doesn't match the quality of that one (even from the very small picture on the auction website), but is of reasonable quality and very cheap at that. Other versions have sold for 720 Euro (a weaker version at Christie's, 2005) to 6,500 Euro (a better version, Cologne, 2011). The one for sale here is probably worth around 1,000 Euro, no fortune, but always nice to find such an old work in an auction which doesn't know or care much about old paintings.
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