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Dark still life painting of a skull, hourglass, metal lantern and open handwritten book on a ledge, with a red drape at right.

Vanitas stilleven

A vanitas still life on a stone ledge shows a human skull, a six-sided hourglass and a pierced metal lantern beside an open book with handwritten pages. A red drape falls across the right edge against a dark, shadowed background.

Artist
B. Schaak
Date
1675-1700
Medium
Source
Rijksmuseum
Size
2906 × 3482 px
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Public domain · Rijksmuseum marks it Public Domain Mark; made by 1700.
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: Public Domain Mark (Rijksmuseum, image license https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

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