Unidentified copy of Barocci's Aeneas' Flight from Troy

At Göteborgs Auktionsverk, ending 1 March 2015, they sell a work by an unidentified artist, 19th century, "figure scene", estimated at some 320 Euro. Current highest bid only 75 Euro. UPDATE: sold for 267 Euro, not a lot for a nice picture if you don't want your paintings to be highly polished and finished.

The painting is actually a reversed (and much smaller) copy of a famous work by Federico Barocci, "Aeneas' Flight from Troy". The copy is rather sketchy but not bad; not as if the artist couldn't do any better (like most poor copîes), but like he didn't want to spend more time, a bit like a final preparatory sketch for the real work. Rudimentary in the details, lacking the finishing touch, but quite accomplished, as if some good artist made this relatively rapidly while on a Grand Tour. The fact that it is reversed and has different colours indicates that it was made after an etching though, which makes it even better (transforming an etching back into a painting isn't that easy). I would certainly much prefer to have this on my wall for 75 or 300 Euro than most other pictures that fetch this kind of money, even with some minor condition issues.