Artist: Pieter Claesz [Dutch painter, 1597-1660] Title: Still Life with Roemer and Oysters Date: 1642 Medium: oil on panel Dimensions: 13 x 19 inches (33 x 47 cm) Location: National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. Image size: 1280 x 896 pixels, 181 Kbytes Image source: Artcyclopedia

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Paintings depicting aspects of the natural world were so characteristic of the Netherlands that, during the seventeenth century, the Dutch words stilleven and landschap were adopted into English as "still life" and "landscape".