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This opulent still-life scene typical of the Baroque Flemish school includes a human figure and two animals, as was common in the period, in accordance with the tastes of the clients, whose wealth and prosperity was also reflected in this genre of paintings. Snyders´ clientele were members of the nobility and haute bourgeoisie who were interested in his paintings as testimonies to wealth as well a
Adriaen van Utrecht was a leading still-life painter in Antwerp, producing paintings characterised by their large size and opulent content, works that are also striking for their compositions and pictorial technique. Paintings of this type reflected the wealth and cosmopolitan culture of their owners.
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
