Rouillac, from France, sells on 20 February 2017 a "Circle of Michiel Coxie, Flemish School ca. 1600" Crucifixion, a small panel (38 by 29 cm) estimated at 1,5000 to 2,000 Euro.
The composition is not by Coxie but by Gillis Mostaert, and is known from quite a few copies.
Dorotheum had a larger example (74 by 54 cm) one for sale in 2014, "attributed to Mostaert" and estimated at 12,000 Euro, but it remained unsold.
Freeman's sold another small one in 2015 for $7,500.
This seems to have been the restored version of the above.
On the other hand, a somewhat damaged "Follower of Mostaert" version similar to the one for sale here (though of lesser quality it seems) was estimated only £600 at
Bonham's in 2015, but remained unsold.
Jackson's sold in 2011 a slightly more decorative, less austere version for $1,600, but that one was much more blurry, less precise painted.
The above one is more of a mystery, as I have no idea about its location (the image comes from one of these "art reproductions" websites which are a plague but at the same time have a large repository of images). Clearly better painted, it seems somehow also more modern. No idea of its dimensions though.
Finally, the
RKD lists a much more elaborate version which was for sale at Sotheby's in 2001 as "Studio of Mostaert".
So, not the best or the worst one, compared to the 6 other copies. This "Follower" or at best "Circle" of Mostaert one will probably fetch the estimate, perhaps closer to the upper limit, but not much more. But it's always fun to show the many slightly different versions of the same painting.
UPDATE: the always interesting Twitter account "
Rembrandt's Room" (Maaike Dirkx) sent me a link to yet another one, sold at
Christie's NY in 2005 but attributed to "Circle of Denys Calvaert". It sold for a nice $33,600, but is clearly one of the better ones of this type (and very closely related to one shown above).
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