Karel Dujardin, 1663 - Boy Blowing Soap Bubbles. Allegory on the Transitoriness - fine art print

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The boy has just lowered his pipe and looks with satisfaction at the bubbles he has sent flying.

One hand holds the soap dish, a scallop shell which still holds a few trembling bubbles. The boy is balanced on a giant soap bubble, surfing the waves on an equally giant shell.

An allegory This vessel constitutes a surreal element within what is otherwise a realistic depiction, proclaiming the motif to be an allegory.

The transience og happiness and the brevity of human life The motif is a "memento mori", a reminder of the transience of happiness and the brevity of human life. The work combines two well-known tropes from the 17th century: Fortuna, the goddess of good fortune, rolling on the waves on a ball, and the "Homo Bulla (est)" ("Man is a bubble") concept, which is often portrayed as a child blowing soap bubbles.

In 1663 the male Dutch artist Karel Dujardin created the 17th century piece of art. Nowadays, the artpiece belongs to the Statens Museum for Kunst (National Gallery of Denmark)'s collection in Copenhagen, Denmark. With courtesy of National Gallery of Denmark (public domain).The creditline of the artwork is: . Furthermore, alignment of the digital reproduction is in portrait format and has a side ratio of 1 : 1.2, meaning that the length is 20% shorter than the width. Karel Dujardin was a painter. printmaker from the Netherlands, whose artistic style can be attributed mainly to Baroque. The Baroque painter was born in the year 1626 in Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands and deceased at the age of 52 in 1678 in Venice, Venezia province, Veneto, Italy.

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