Vanderkindere, Belgium, sells on 19 January 2016 an "Antwerp School, second quarter of the 17th century" Supper at Emmaus, a large panel painting (106 by 151) estimated at 5,000 to 7,000 Euro.
The central figure of Jesus and the old woman behind him are copied from a well-known Rubens painting of the same subject (image from the RKD). Other elements, like the man pouring a drink on the left, also seem very familiar, with elements reminiscent of Bloemaert or Wolffort. I wonder if this isn't a much later pastiche (the woman on the far left seems more like a 19th century painting to me) instead of an original Antwerp painting close to Rubens' period.
If original, it is easily worth the estimate, but I don't really trust this one.
UPDATE: sold for 5,000 Euro, the bottom estimate.
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