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A Skull
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
The meticulousness with which the old, battered skull is depicted with a muddle of scratches suggests that Segers was here working ‘from life.’ The skull that served as the model is different to the one in the adjacent painting (Welch Family Private Collection, United States).
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit lineA Skull. c. 1615 - c. 1630. Hercules Segers. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
