Showing posts with label Emeraude. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Emeraude. Show all posts

Wednesday, 26 October 2016

Why keep the French stubbornly insisting that these are Flemish?

Emeraude, from France, sells on 29 october a "Flemish School, 17th century" Annunciation, a small oil on copper estimated at 400 to 500 Euro.

It is the poor man's version of a work I discussed on my blog in June 2016; then it was also incorrectly described as Flemish. It was and remains a copy after Gentile da Fabriano, a purely Italian work. Considering the similarities in the two "French" versions, like the chair of the Virgin, some common origin (an engraving? A good copy after Da Fabriano?) may be postulated.

Value: not more than the estimate, surely, as it is a pretty poor painting.