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A smoking pipe, piccolo, books, sheet music, an oil-burning lamp, a white and blue pitcher, and a few matches are arranged on a wooden tabletop against a dark background in this vertical still life painting. The black piccolo has a white mouthpiece and is propped on some books at the center of the composition. The piccolo rests on the spine of a paper-bound book, which in turn leans on a volume bound in brown leather tooled with green, red, and gold bands. Under the book, a baby-blue page sits on some sheet music that drapes over the front of the table toward us. The blue cover bears the…

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William Michael Harnett (American, 1848 - 1892)

1888 · oil on wood

National Gallery of Art · Gift of the Avalon Foundation

Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0)

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