referred to it as being very similar to the lost Suermondt Museum piece. It has now been purchased back and returned to the museum after 70 years. The museum had earlier recovered Flowers in a Glass Vase by Nicolaes Verendael, which had also been sold by Alice Tittel to a New York collector. About 200 paintings from the museum's collection were stolen in 1945. It is unknown how many are still missing. References Cat. nr. 3 in the exhibition Great Dutch Paintings from America, held in 1990-1991, first in the Mauritshuis in The Hague, and later in the San Francisco Fine Arts Museum, catalogue edited by Ben Broos, 1990 Museum article about this painting (in German) Paintings in North Rhine-Westphalia 1620s paintings Flower paintings Looting