Still Life with Books
Also titled Stilleven met boeken
Hercules Segers (Haarlem, ca. –ca.)
c. 1618 - c. 1622
- Medium
- paint (coating), cotton (textile)
- Classification
- Dimensions
- height 93 mm x width 205 mm (trimmed outside the printed surface)
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- On loan from the City of Amsterdam
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
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).
