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Still life painting showing a skull, urn, coins and book
Still-life paintings in the Royal Collection

The Royal Collection contains many examples of still-life painting

DAVID TENIERS THE YOUNGER (ANTWERP 1610-BRUSSELS 1690)

The Interior of a Kitchen with an Old Woman Peeling Turnips

c. 1640-44

RCIN 405945

This painting of a comic peasant interior is an of an enduring Dutch and Flemish tradition. The idea of the still life to the left would seem to be that of ‘poor plenty’, an abundance of basic fare.


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