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Painting of skulls, a jawbone, an hourglass, books and a candle on a dark table, with pink flowers at the lower right.

Vanitas stilleven

A dark still life shows several human skulls and a jawbone on a stone ledge, with a small red hourglass, stacked books, and a lit candle at upper right. A pink rose and a wilting bloom lie at lower right. The composition uses the traditional vanitas motifs of mortality and the passing of time.

Artist
Aelbert Jansz van der Schoor (signed by artist)
Date
1660-1665
Medium
Source
Rijksmuseum
Size
4000 × 3480 px
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Public domain · Rijksmuseum marks it Public Domain Mark; made by 1665.
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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