A painting composed in a warm color palette and with lots of panache and realism. The canvas largely goes back to Caravaggio's work of the same name in the San Luigi dei Francesi chapel in Rome. The older man Mattheus is behind the table. The tax collector has an open book for himself. The figures on the painting would be family members of the painter. And the apostle Mattheus is perhaps a selfportrait of the painter.
Flemish art and heritage collections, in great detail