430:. Van Thiel has ascribed new meaning to the painting: he stated that the ledgers are not actually books, but they are files. Unlike most scholarly books, files hold practical information like records. Ledgers occasionally appear in still life paintings but they are never featured so prominently as the main focus of a painting. The main feature of the ledger bindings may be to demonstrate their "ruinous state". Bindings like the ones in the painting have been featured in images of moneychangers, lawyers, and tax collectors. The degraded ledgers may represent degenerate people and the ledgers contrast with "The flawless jug, the gleaming glass of white wine and the fresh white roll." Those gleaming and fresh items may represent the opposite of corruption, or they may represent religion: wine and bread symbolize God for
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363:. In the painting he used a skull, a violin, an extinguished candle and an hourglass, ostensibly to illustrate mortality. The painting was also attributed to Rembrandt for many years until a 2014 examination by experts at the Rijksmuseum determined that it was the work of Lievens.
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