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JACQUES DE GHEYN II. Vanitas Still Life

Vanitas Still Life. Artist: Jacques de Gheyn II (Netherlandish, Antwerp 1565-1629 The Hague). Dimensions: 32 1/2 x 21 1/4 in. (82.6 x 54 cm). Date: 1603. De Gheyn was a wealthy amateur who is best known as a brilliant draftsman, but he also painted and engraved. This panel is generally considered to be the earliest known independent still life painting of a <i>vanitas</i> subject. The skull, large bubble, cut flowers, and smoking urn refer to the brevity of life, while images floating in the bubble--such as a wheel of torture and a leper's rattle--Spanish coins, and a Dutch medal refer to human folly. The figures flanking the arch above are Democritus and Heraclitus, the laughing and weeping philosophers of ancient Greece.
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Vanitas Still Life
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Vanitas Still Life. Artist: Jacques de Gheyn II (Netherlandish, Antwerp 1565-1629 The Hague). Dimensions: 32 1/2 x 21 1/4 in. (82.6 x 54 cm). Date: 1603. De Gheyn was a wealthy amateur who is best known as a brilliant draftsman, but he also painted and engraved. This panel is generally considered to be the earliest known independent still life painting of a vanitas subject. The skull, large bubble, cut flowers, and smoking urn refer to the brevity of life, while images floating in the bubble--such as a wheel of torture and a leper's rattle--Spanish coins, and a Dutch medal refer to human folly. The figures flanking the arch above are Democritus and Heraclitus, the laughing and weeping philosophers of ancient Greece.
Technique/material:
OIL ON WOOD
Museum:
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
Credit:
Album / Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
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Image size:
2629 x 4037 px | 30.4 MB
Print size:
22.3 x 34.2 cm | 8.8 x 13.5 in (300 dpi)
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