Lot Essay
The present picture may be compared with three works by a J. van Kessel, which may be Jeroom, or Hieronymus van Kessel II, in the Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum, Brunswick (inv. no. 146), the Lubomirsky Museum at Lwow, Russia (inv. no. 781), and the Rijksdienst Beeldende Kunst, The Hague (inv. no. NK 2402)