For sale at Prunier, lot 118, 15 February 2015: a "Banquet" scene attributed to Frans Francken II. Estimated at 4,000 to 5,000 Euro. The same lot was sold in December 2012 at Alde for 2,200 Euro as "Circle of Frans Francken I". Someone hopes, rightly or wrongly, to make a nice profit by providing a more precise attribution, and probably after having cleaned the picture (it certainly looks brighter now). I would personally not attribute it to Francken, it isn't good enough in nearly all aspects. Not that Frans Francken II the best of painters is, but even for him this seems too awkward in pose.
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