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The painting shows a wooden wall with a canvas mounted on a temporary stretcher resting on a shelf that also bears the painter's paraphernalia. The canvas shows a still-life with symbols of death and resurrection, a so-called vanitas still-life.
It was presumably this painting that secured Gijsbrechts the position as Court Painter to the Danish kings, first Frederic III (1609-1675) and later Christian V (1646-1699).
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