Follower of Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, circa 1640

This anonymous artist was inspired by the strong tenebrism of Caravaggio’s works made in the first decade of the seventeenth century in Rome, such as the half-length figures in the artist's depictions of the Supper at Emmaus, now in the collections of the National Gallery, London (inv. no. NG172) and the Brera, Milan (inv. no. 2296).