Grapes, peaches, a melon, plums, blackberries, rosehips, an ear of barley, a vine tendril, chestnuts, walnuts, and hazelnuts with a fly, a caterpillar and a beetle on a stone ledge before an alcove

Pieter Gallis is recorded as having lived at Enkhuizen, and from 1682, near Hoorn, towns to the north of Amsterdam, on the Zuiderzee. Praised by Houbraken, Gallis supposedly earned his primary income as a director of the local Credit Bank, but painted still-lives and landscapes for love of art rather than profit. Paintings by him are in the collections of the Ashmolean Museum and the Rijksmuseum.

We are grateful to Dr. Fred Meijer for the attribution, given on the basis of a photograph.