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Still Life with Books
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
While Segers’ stack of books looks unassuming enough, it is entirely original, and may even be the earliest still life in European graphic art. While still lifes frequently feature in 17th-century paintings, they are rarely found in black-and-white (in prints).
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionCredit lineStill Life with Books. c. 1618 - c. 1622. Hercules Segers. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
