A kitchen with dead snipe, a leg of ham and a dead hare hanging from hooks above stone ledges with dead songbirds in a copper bucket, turnips and fruit on a wan-li dish, cabbages and turnips in a barrel with cauliflower, asparagus and artichokes on

E. Greindl, Les Peintres Flamands de Nature Morte, 1956, p.194, lists several still lives signed Francisco Ykens, among which the paintings in the Museum Plantin-Moretus Antwerp; Musée des Beaux-Arts Ghent and in the Gemäldegalerie Berlin. This would suggest that the artist travelled to Madrid, where fellow artists like Juan van der Hamen y Léon had introduced this type of work; an assumption supported by the documented presence of the artist in Marseille and Aix-en-Provence.