A basket of fruit on a draped table; and Peaches, grapes and a vase of flowers on a partially draped table

This pair belongs to a group of paintings that have traditionally been given to the enigmatic French still life painter Jacques Hupin, who worked in Rome in the middle of the seventeenth century. Among the other paintings in this group is one depicting an identical basket of fruit and carpet which appeared Sotheby's, Monaco, 20-21 June 1987, lot 370. The artist responsible for the present pair depicted the same carpet in several further works, including one thought to be a collaboration by Hupin and Simon Luttichuys in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (inv. no. SK-A-2551).