A Trompe-l'oeil: documents, a quill, a set of engravings, an almanac, a wax seal and a pen on a wooden partition.

The attribution has been kindly suggested by F. Meyer of the RKD on the basis of a photograph. He compares it with the picture, signed and dated 1665, where a similar folded newspaper headed VICTOR occurs. As pointed out in Het Nederlandse Stilleven 1550-1720, exhibition catalogue, Cleveland and Amsterdam, 1999, p.231, this may refer to the British victory in the battle of Lowestoft of June 1665. The same newspaper also occurs in a trompe-l'oeil of the same year in the Muse Marmottan, Paris (op. cit., p.233, under note 3), and in a still life sold at Sotheby's Amsterdam, 22 April 1980, lot 24, as Collier (op. cit., p.233, under note 3).