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Pieter Claesz

Still Life with a Skull and a Writing Quill

1628
Oil on wood
24.1 × 35.9 cm (9.5 × 14.1 in)

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● On view now — Gallery 520

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York · verified July 2026

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