Lot Essay
The basket with the pike-perch and the salmon-steak also occurs in the still life, signed and dated 1664, in the Bengt-Rapp collection, Stockholm (O. ter Kuile, Seventeenth Century North Netherlandish Still ifes, 1985, p.78, fig.VI-8a) and in that in the collection of the Rijksdienst Beeldende Kunst (Rijksdienst Beeldende Kunst, Old Master Paintings, 1992, p.40, n0178, ill.).