Jasper Geeraards

[2] It is possible, although there is no documentary evidence to support this assumption, that he studied for a while under the prominent Dutch still life painter Jan Davidsz.

In addition to smaller scale works he is also known to have painted large canvases such as a composition (formerly attributed to de Heem) in the musée Saint-Loup in Troyes, France the size of which is 116 by 162 cm.

[4] A Pronk still life with lobster in the collection of the Museum Bredius in The Hague was attributed to Jasper Geerards after it was cleaned during a major restoration in the period 1979–1983.

[5] It was discovered during the restoration that it was a fragment of a big "pronkstilleven" (ostentatious still life) in the style of Jan Davidsz.

It is likely that during earlier overpaintings of the original various elements where added to the painting such as the Delft vase and the two roses at the lower right, possibly to adapt the composition to then prevailing tastes.