Another version of the Flemish Charity (now without text); follower of Anthonie Palamedesz

In May 2016, I posted about a Flemish Charity, an interesting work (mainly because of the texts on it) which turned out to be a common theme of the grandparents living in poverty and being rejected by their children in favur of their grandchildren (and their own luxurious life); this is commonly described as "Poor parents, Rich children" in the literature.

Another version, this time without the texts, is now available on 17 January 2017 at Nice enchères, in France, without an estimate.

It looks to be a copy after a better painting, so should probably be worth 500 Euro at most. But it's interesting to get another example, and to note that this story was well known enough in its time to exist without the explanatory panels as well. 

The work seems to be based on a composition by Anthonie Palamedesz. The RKD lists one possible original, and one clear copy of comparable quality to the one for sale here.

When researching this one, I also found an engraving of a painting I showed in my previous blog post about this. It is attributed to Claes Jansz. Visscher II (1612-1652), after Vinckboons. It has a long accompanying text, which I'm not going to transcribe and translate now, as it is in Latin.

This again led me to another image by Visscher, from the Rijksmuseum.

And finally to the above by Jacob de Gheyn II, which turns out to be the basis for my mystery composition from the first blog post, but with some bits added and made clearer (e.g. the old man on the left turns out to be Death). The Text (in Dutch) is different on both works. The engraving sadly doesn't note the original painter...