Tulips, roses, lilies, carnations, morning glory and other flowers in a basket, plums on a branch with a snail and peaches on blue velvet, draped over a sculpted, stone table, before tassled, golden chintz draped from a column

We are grateful to Mr. Fred Meijer of the RKD for confirming the traditional attribution to Picart. He considers this picture to have been produced in collaboration with Willem van Aelst to whom he attributes the fruit still life on the right side of the composition. He proposes a date of 1649-50, when van Aelst was in Paris, and compares it to a Still life of plums and peaches, signed and dated 1649 (Amsterdam, with Kunsthandel Roelofsz, 1996).