Simon Marmion, Anonymous, or Master of the Gold Brocade?

Hermitage, from Monaco, sells on 24 November 2018 a "Flemish School, 16th century" Maria lactans, estimated at 30,000 to 40,000 Euro.

The same painting was for sale on 12 April 2018 at Hampel, in Germany, as the work of Simon Marmion, estimated at 50,000 to 70,000 Euro.

 Version from the Metropolitan Museum

It is most likely the work of the Master of the Gold Brocade; the three other versions of the same work are all attributed to him (or her) by the RKD, and I see little reason to doubt their judgment or to believe that this one is  suddenly the work of Marmion. The original composition of the Virgin and Child is the work of Rogier Van der Weyden.

This version is also listed at the RKD, where they know it from a collection in 1937, and from being listed by the French Government as a recuperated work from (Récuperation Française, M.N.R. 853). Such M.N.R. numbers often point to looted art, but without further provenance it is hard to be certain if this work had been given back to the original owners and has reached the art market from there, or if this work may still be the rightful and moral poperty of the family of Nazi victims.

UPDATE: most of the same info was already posted at the AuctionRadar blog at the time of the Hampel auction!

UPDATE 2: and now again for sale at Hampel (28 March 2019), still as Marmion, and still with a 30,000 to 50,000 Euro estimate.

Simon Marmion? Burgundian portrait

At Sworders, English auction house, they sell on 16 June an "After Jean Malouel (Flemish c. 1365-1415)" portrait of Philippe le Hardi (Philips the Bold) of Burgundy, estimated at £400 to £600.

The question is of course how long after Malouel this was painted. This is a well-known portrait for which the original is lost, but a number of copies are known, most famously one in the Dijon Museum (on loan from the Louvre). The one for sale here is of much lower quality, but has an inscription identifying the sitter as added bonus.

On the painting and on the back, the copy for sale is identified as by Simon Marmion (1425-1489). In the 19th and early 20th century, many primitive French paintings were attributed to Marmion, as one of the few well-known 15th century painters, and with no definitive paintings by him to fix his style once and for all. As he worked for the Burgundian court, a (copy of) a portrait of a Burgundian ruler was a logical candidate to be attributed to him. However, the quality of this copy is much too low to be by Marmion, and it looks more like an anonymous, provincial work. It could well be very old though, and if it is 15th or early 16th century, it should really be worth more than the estimate, more like £2,000 or thereabouts, due to the age and the identity of the sitter, not so much because of purely artistic value. UPDATE: as expected, sold for £3,100 instead of estimated £400!