Wednesday 27 May 2015

Copy after Rubens

Campo&Campo, from Antwerp, sells an "Old Master, 18th century" depiction of Christ offering the key to Saint Peter, a small (37 by 30) panel estimated at 700 to 900 Euro.

It is a reverse (so after an engraving) copy of a painting by Rubens, now in the Gemäldegalerie in Berlin. Not sure it is worth the estimate, it is a rather lifeless copy, but of course such copies nearly always pale when put next to the original... UPDATE: not sold, now in the after sale.

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