Lot Essay
We are grateful to Mr. Fred Meijer for confirming the attribution to Francken, on the basis of a transparency. He notes that although the garlands of flowers in paintings of this genre are often attributed to Andries Daniels and occasionally to Philips de Marlier, Francken employed several artists in his workshop who worked from Brueghel-related compositions, and it is therefore difficult to identify the collaborator with any certainty.