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Still Life with Books and a Violin

De Heem is known mainly for the colourful, flamboyant flower still-lifes he painted from 1650. But before that, he painted simple still-lifes in shades of brown and grey. Educated viewers would have recognised the titles of the books on the table and understood that their central theme was the concept of fate. This added a deeper level to De Heem’s still-life. It warns against the mortality of man…

Creator

  • Jan Davidsz de Heem

Type of item

  • painting

Date

  • 1628 - 1628
  • 1628/1628
  • 1628/1628

Medium

  • panel

Creator

  • Jan Davidsz de Heem

Type of item

  • painting

Date

  • 1628 - 1628
  • 1628/1628
  • 1628/1628

Medium

  • panel

Providing institution

  • Mauritshuis

Aggregator

  • Dutch Collections for Europe

Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)

  • http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

User generated content

  • false

Identifier

  • resource_document_mauritshuis_613
  • 613

Format

  • 64 cm
  • 48.5 cm
  • 36.1 cm
  • 52 cm

Providing country

  • Netherlands

Collection name

  • 2021672_Ag_NL_DigitaleCollectie_Mauritshuis

Timestamp created

  • 2017-08-02T11:48:25.747Z

Timestamp updated

  • 2023-02-28T08:45:41.077Z