It is a traditional seventeenth-century still life composition: subject very much in vogue at the time, the theme of still life lends itself to infinite variations intended to enhance the artist's technical skills in the mimetic rendering of reality. In the Monza painting, which came to the museum thanks to an important inheritance from 1923, the figure of the pouring duck is striking, next to a woodcock and other birds and fruit arranged on a wicker basket. The work was exhibited in the Pinacoteca in 1935 as a production of the 17th century Cremonese school; in view of the reopening to the public of the Civic Museums in 2014, it has undergone an important restoration which has made it possible to regain full readability.