Oil/canvas, 57 x 122 cm, some rest. - Literature: The painting is registered at the RKD in The Hague as work of the 'Meester met de Poes'. - Provenance: Auction house J. Fievéz, Brussels, 20.06.1928, lot no. 1; private collection Hamburg. - The invented name 'Meester met de Poes' refers to a master who was active in the second quarter of the 17th century in Flanders, but possibly also in the Netherlands. His table still lifes typically feature cheese, butter, a basket of fruit, birds and the eponymous cat. Lit.: van der Willigen/Meijer: A dictionary of dutch and flemish still-life painters working in oils, 2003.