Little is known regarding two artists called Catarina Ykens, both garland painters, and it is uncertain whether this painting is by Catarina Ykens I or Catarina Ykens II, to whom it is usually attributed. In either case, both were among the few women painters active in Early Modern Europe. Of the approximately 1,300 Flemish paintings in the Prado, only six were painted by women, four of them by Cl