To be compared with the Still life of Flowers in a glass vVse on a Wooden Box, recorded in the collection of P. Landry, Paris (Vier Eeuwen stilleven in Frankrijk, exhibition catalogue Rotterdam, 1954, no. 19), where the shadow thrown by the vase is identical. Similar too are the roses in the Fruit and Flower still life offered at Christie's Monaco, 4 December 1992, lot 39, with ill.

Picart, who was a Fleming, settled in Paris early in his career, where he became the leading figure among the Flemish still life painters active in that city and a member of the corporation of painters of Saint-Germain des Prés; see M. Faré, La Nature Morte en France, 1974, pp. 84/98

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