Another collection of essays, "Martwa natura z wędzidłem" ("Still Life with a Bridle"), published in 1993, is devoted to seventeenth-century Dutch painting. Just as in "Barbarzyńca w ogrodzie", here widely accepted assessments have no impact on the author's personal preferences. Among Dutch painters, the one who fascinates Herbert the most is hardly known Torrentius, whose work "Martwa natura z wędzidłem" is the only one to be preserved. In this particular volume of essays the figure of traveler is less noticeable than in the previous one. Yet, people still arouse Herbert's interest – not only painters, also those who were buying and often ordering their works – since Dutch painting is typical of a certain civilization and is not possible to exist in any other place or time.