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Pieter Claesz van Haarlem - Vanitas Still Life with the Spinario (an Italian 'thorn puller' 1628).

Pieter Claesz van Haarlem, Dutch Baroque painter, specialized in Still Life, born in 1597, buried in 1661.
— Dutch still-life painter, born in Burgsteinfurt, bishopric of Münster (now Steinfurt, Germany) and active in Haarlem where he settled in 1617. He and Willem Claeaszoon Heda, who also worked in Haarlem, were the most important exponents of the "ontbijt" or breakfast piece. They painted with subdued, virtually monochromatic palettes, the subtle handling of light and texture being the prime means of expression. Claesz generally chose objects of a more homely kind than Heda, although his later work became more colorful and decorative. The two men founded a distinguished tradition of still-life painting in Haarlem, but Claesz's son and student, Nicholas Berchem became famous as a landscape painter.
— Still-life painter Pieter Claesz probably came from Berchem, near Antwerp. He moved to Haarlem at an early date, where he married in 1617 and later died. Pieter Claesz's son Nicolaes Berchem, also became a painter. In his early work, Pieter Claesz employed brilliant colours. Later, he adopted a more subdued palette, with colours of similar hues. His compositions acquired more elegance, broadness and nonchalance than previously. Nevertheless, the objects in his still lifes rarely overlap. For Pieter Claesz, the principal aim was to render the materials and catch the reflected light as accurately as possible. This was his speciality. http://www.safran-arts.com/42day/art/art4jan/art0101.html
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Pieter Claesz van Haarlem - Vanitas Still-Life (1630).

My Mom would yell at me if I kept my skulls on the dining table. "Get those dirty things off the table," was what I would hear. Pete must have never listened to his Mother.
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There. Now we can have a nice dinner without those skulls cluttering up the place.
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catch the Dirty Jobs segment on the place that strips bones of flesh?
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Claes Vanitas c.1630
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I like how Pieter Claesz van Haarlem stuck a pubic hair onto the skull to show the Vanitas of self abuse.
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I'm a big Pieter Claesz fan. Epic win, thank you OP. You've done an art history major a great service.
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Still Life With Olives
This is a Heda
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Self-Portrait With Vanitas Symbols
This is by Bailly
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Thanks!

Pic: Jan Steen - Family Scene (1668).
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Wow. Copious amounts of win detected. Thanks BG