Still Life with Books and a Globe

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Still Life with Books and a Globe

c. 1665-1670

Jan van der Heyden (Dutch (active Amsterdam), 1637–1712)

Rather than illustrating a scene from the Bible, Van der Heyden painted the actual book, opened to the Song of Solomon. The globe and other, unidentified volumes indicate that this is a scholar’s desk. Van der Heyden himself owned an impressive library comprising 184 volumes, an exceptional number for a painter in the seventeenth century.

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Object Details

Title:

Still Life with Books and a Globe

Date:

c. 1665-1670

Artist:

Jan van der Heyden (Dutch (active Amsterdam), 1637–1712)

Medium:

Oil on panel

Dimensions:

8 15/16 x 10 5/8 inches (22.7 x 27 cm)

Classification:

Paintings

Credit Line:

John G. Johnson Collection, 1917

Accession Number:

Cat. 597

Geography:

Made in Southern Netherlands (modern Belgium), Europe

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