Like his father, Jan van Kessel the Elder, Jan the younger also specialised in still lifes. Researchers have only been able to differentiate the works of the two artists with certainty within the last few years. This development was primarily the achievement of Klaus Ertz, who published his catalogue raisonné of both artists in 2012. Considering the large amount unordered material before the publication, it is hardly surprising that Ertz still ascribed these two paintings to Jan the Elder in his expertise of 2006.

He was first able to securely attribute the works to the younger artist after examining all of both painters' surviving works together, and has listed both pieces as the work of Jan van Kessel the Younger...