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PIETER CLAESZ. Still Life with a Skull and a Writing Quill

Still Life with a Skull and a Writing Quill. Artist: Pieter Claesz (Dutch, Berchem? 1596/97-1660 Haarlem). Dimensions: 9 1/2 x 14 1/8 in. (24.1 x 35.9 cm). Date: 1628. This is one of the earliest dated still lifes by Claesz, a Haarlem painter who gave extraordinary presence to familiar things. Here a skull, an overturned glass roemer with its fleeting reflections, an expired lamp, and the attributes of a writer suggest that worldly efforts are ultimately in vain.
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Still Life with a Skull and a Writing Quill
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Still Life with a Skull and a Writing Quill. Artist: Pieter Claesz (Dutch, Berchem? 1596/97-1660 Haarlem). Dimensions: 9 1/2 x 14 1/8 in. (24.1 x 35.9 cm). Date: 1628. This is one of the earliest dated still lifes by Claesz, a Haarlem painter who gave extraordinary presence to familiar things. Here a skull, an overturned glass roemer with its fleeting reflections, an expired lamp, and the attributes of a writer suggest that worldly efforts are ultimately in vain.
Technique/material:
OIL ON WOOD
Museum:
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
Credit:
Album / Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
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Image size:
4192 x 2826 px | 33.9 MB
Print size:
35.5 x 23.9 cm | 14.0 x 9.4 in (300 dpi)
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