On the fascinating story of how this painting found its way home after disappearing in the 1940s, see the CODART article: https://www.codart.nl/art-works/balthasar-van-der-ast-returns-suermondt-ludwig-museum-aachen/
A long-lost still life by Balthasar van der Ast has been returned to the Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum on July 10, 2017