Caption:
painting, Karel van der Pluym, 1655, Signature front, top center, on the beam: CvdPluym 1.6.5.5. [CvdP together], panel, oil paint, painted, Carrier: 54.5 × 41.5 × 0.5cm 545 × 415 × 5mm, With frame: 71 × 58 × 4.5cm 710 × 580 × 45mm, book, skull, man, interior, painting depicting a philosopher. On an armchair, to the left, is a gray man with a long gray beard. He rests his left hand on the armrest of his armchair and he leafs with his right hand in a large foliant, which with some other books and a skull lies on a cloth-covered table in front of him. The man is wearing a red beret on his head and he is dressed in a brown tab. On the left is a semi-recessed curtain and a mirror hangs from the back wall; more to the right a fireplace. The top corners are arched. Signed on the bar. The painting is in a wooden frame, 1899