Wednesday 31 October 2018

Unrecognised copies after Teniers and after Maerten de Vos

Pousse-Cornet, from France, sells on 24 November 2018 a "Flemish School, 18th century" Banquet, estimated at 800 to 1200 Euro.

It is an unrecognised but fairly good copy after David Teniers the Younger, the "Feast of the Prodigal son" from the Louvre, which probably was a portrait of himself and his family. The version for sale is a bit blurry in the faces but otherwise better than most copies you'll find for this price. It probably is just not good enough to be considered a workshop version (it clearly isn't an original by Teniers, who is well-known for only painting one version of each painting himself, and letting his workshop make copies if needed), but I can see it going for 1,500 to 2,000 Euro.

And Madeleine, from France as well, sells a "Flemish School, 17th century" Last supper, a large canvas (90 by 170 cm) estimated at 800 Euro.

It is a copy after an engraving by Johannes Sadeler after a design by Maerten de Vos (found, as usual, on the site of the Rijksmuseum). The painter at least had the skills and originality to change it from a vertical work to a quite different horizontal one, moving figures around to achieve a better result in the new format. It is not the most popular design by De Vos, I couldn't immediately find other paintings with this design, and considering its size and age, I guess it will easily fetch the estimate.

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