Master of the Prodigal Son or Antoon Claissens? In any case, a partial copy after Bronzino

Ader, from France, sells on 24 June 2016 an "Antwerp School, follower of the Master of the Prodigal Son" Passing of the Red Sea, estimated at 3,000 to 5,000 Euro.

It was sold at Christie's New York in 1996 for $10,000 (!), and was then described as Circle of Antoon Claeissens. While the old attribution is listed at the Ader sale, the Christie's provenance isn't. It seems that giving proper provenance happens less and less at auctions, even when it is about a sale of 20 years ago (not some very recent one where they try to avoid price comparisons).

Whether it is by someone from the circle of Claeissens or the Master of the Prodigal Son, what apparently hasn't been noticed is that the work is at least in part copied from a work by Angelo Bronzino from ca. 1540 from the Palazzo Vecchio.

The lower right corner (or about half the painting) is clearly deroved straight from the Bronzino, but with a lot of alterations. It doesn't seem to be based on an engraving, but probably made after copies (made during an Italian trip?). It is interesting to see how the Italian work is adapted and how such Renaissance works influenced Flemish paintings.

The work is known from engravings though, like the above anonymous one (published by Hieronymus Cock and found at the Rijksmuseum). So it can't be ruled out that the influence came indirectly.

As a copy, it is harder to identify the artist; the composition can't be used to determine who may have painted it. The style is a bit more Master of the Prodigal Son than Claeissens, but I'll not risk a guess any further.It should be worth the estimate, but probably not more, unless you try to track the influence of Italian art on Flemish painting in the 16th century.