Jacques de Gheyn II, 1603 - Vanitas Still Life - fine art print

Overview

Vanitas Still Life is an artwork made by the painter Jacques de Gheyn II. The more than 410 year old original was made with the size: 32 1/2 x 21 1/4 in (82,6 x 54 cm) and was made with the technique of oil on wood. Nowadays, this piece of art can be viewed in in the digital collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, New York, United States of America. With courtesy of: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Charles B. Curtis, Marquand, Victor Wilbour Memorial, and The Alfred N. Punnett Endowment Funds, 1974 (public domain license). The creditline of the artwork is the following: Charles B. Curtis, Marquand, Victor Wilbour Memorial, and The Alfred N. Punnett Endowment Funds, 1974. On top of that, alignment of the digital reproduction is portrait with an aspect ratio of 2 : 3, which implies that the length is 33% shorter than the width.

Original artwork description from the museum's website (© - by The Metropolitan Museum of Art - The Metropolitan Museum of Art)

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.

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