Cabbages, a copper bucket, an earthenware strainer and other utensils, with a goat and a sheep in a barn, peasants by a fire beyond

The present lot is to be compared with the barn interior, signed and dated 1637, in the National Museum, Warsaw (E. Gemar-Koeltzsch, Holländische Stillebenmaler im 17. Jahrhunderts, III, 1995, p.873, no344/4, with ill.) and is therefore to be dated to the time when the artist had settled in Dordrecht. Characteristic is the red-brown tonality of the barn in which the still life elements become visible through strong light. Ryckhals was probably the first painter of barn interiors, thus probably paving the way for later painters such as Cornelis Saftleven, Pieter de Bloot and Egbert van der Poel.