Still Life with a Skull and a Writing Quill, 1628, Oil on wood, 9 1/2 x 14 1/8 in. (24.1 x 35.9 cm), Paintings, Pieter Claesz (Dutch, Berchem? 1596/97–1660 Haarlem), 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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Life, Skull, Writing Quill, 1628, Oil, wood, 9 1/2 x 14 1/8, 24.1 35.9 cm, Paintings, Pieter Claesz, Dutch, Berchem?, 1596/97–1660, Haarlem, earliest dated, lifes, Claesz, Haarlem painter, gave extraordinary presence, familiar things, skull, overturned glass, roemer, fleeting reflections, expired lamp, attributes, writer suggest, worldly efforts, ultimately, vain
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