Following a journey to the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Van Meegeren painted "The Supper at Emmaus" using the lapis lazuli (ultramarine blues) and yellows used by Johannes Vermeer and other Dutch Golden Age painters. The experts assumed that Vermeer had studied in Italy, so Van Meegeren used the version of Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio's "Supper at Emmaus" located at Italy's Pinacoteca di Brera as a model. He had always wanted to walk in the steps of the masters, and he felt that his forgery was a fine work in its own right. He gave it to his friend, attorney C. A. Boon, telling him that it was a genuine Vermeer, and asked him to show it to Dr. Abraham Bredius, the art historian, in Monaco. Bredius examined the forgery in September 1937 and, writing in "The Burlington Magazine", he accepted it as a genuine Vermeer and praised it very highly as ""the" masterpiece of Johannes Vermeer of Delft".