 The only indication of the French origin of the paintings are a few objects that Flemish exponents of the same genre would not have pictured in their works.Kalf's rustic interiors had a large influence on French art in the circle of the Le Nain brothers.The semi-monochrome still lifes which Kalf created in Paris from a link to the banketjes or 'little banquet pieces' painted by such Dutch artists as Pieter Claesz, Willem Claeszoon Heda and others in the 1630s.