Not a terribly well executed painting, but interesting to see how attribution and subject can change on these. For sale at Balclis, 11 February, is a "Flemish School, ca. 1720, Jason and Medea", starting price 600 Euro. UPDATE: sold for 900 Euro.
The same or an extremely similar painting was sold in 2002 at Christie's as "Circle of Jacob Toorenvliet, the Rape of Lucretia" for $1,844. So now you can, if you are lucky, buy it for a third of the price... I don't really see a depiction of Jason and Medea in this picture though, the Rape of Lucretia seems a lot more likely. I can't judge the earlier attribution to the circle of Toorenvliet.
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