Rest on the Flight to Egypt

Scheublein, from Germany, sells on 2 December 216 a "Probably Dutch, 17th century" Holy Family, a small work (26 by 20) estimated at 1,200 Euro.

It is a Flemish work, showing a typical scene from the "Rest on the flight to Egypt", a playful family moment depicted by some of the greatest masters of the period. This work reminds me most of Jordaens, and more generally of the ca. 1630 Antwerp school (two examples by Van Dyck pictured).

The child especially is very close to examples by Van Dyck and Rubens.

While it isn't good enough to be attributed to Jordaens or one of the other well-known names, it still is a lot better than the estimate indicates, and should be worth 4,000 to 5,000 Euro.

UPDATE: sold for 950 Euro, way below my expectations

UPDATE 2 (June 2017): a bit late, but I have just found at the RKD the original for this work, and it is Dutch after all! It is a work by Godfried Schalcken,  from the Bayern State Museum in Munich, dated circa 1685-1690.