Deposition, Follower of Hugo Van der Goes

At Daguerre, part of Drouot Paris, they sell on 13 May 2015 as Lot 61 a Deposition by a "Late 16th century Flemish follower of Hugo Van der Goes", estimated at 2,500 to 3,000 Euro. It's a decent painting with condition issues, but not a sleeper master painting.

It seems likely that some better picture is at the origin of this one, since I could find other paintings that are also based on the same composition. One was a much worse picture at ArtValue, the other one a somewhat similar but better picture that was sold at Christie's Amsterdam in 2014 for 55,500 Euro, or some 20 times the current estimation! Other versions were sold at Sotheby's in 2001, are kept at the Catherijneconvent in Utrecht, in Nizhny Novgorod, ...

They probably all go back to a Van der Weyden composition, a workshop version of which is kept at the Gösta Serlachius Museum, Mänttä, Finland. The Christie's one above, just like nearly all other ones I could find, is a rather faithful copy, while the one for sale is more remote and probably later. I don't see a lot of Van der Goes in it though.

Naval battle by Musin

At Daguerre, they sell a "Musin, Belgian School of the 19th century" marine, 50 by 80 cm and estimated at 400 to 600 Euro only.

It looks like the work of François Etienne Musin, and should be worth at least 5 times as much if so. UPDATE: sold for 2,800 Euro, or about five times the estimate! It is a companion piece to or variation on the above, which is in a private collection. The sea is painted a bit more simplistic though in the one for sale, as if the original buyers choose the "slightly rushed" version over the "completely finished" one.  There are many old fake Musins, but this one, though not as good as his best works, seems to have a fairly good chance of being a real Musin, in which case it would make a very good buy.