Vanitas by jacques de claeuw

  • Vanitas Still Life.
  • In this painting, explicit reminders of mortality and passing time, a skull and hourglass, are placed alongside a violin and bow, an ink pot, a globe and books.
  • This is a faithful photographic reproduction of a two-dimensional, public domain work of art.

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    Jacques de Claeuw (Dordrecht 1623 – 1694 Leiden)

    Vanitas still-life with a globe, books, skull, violin, flute, letter and flowers on a draped ledge

    Oil on panel, 36.8 x 46.8 cm (14.5 x 18.4 inch); presented in a black frame of 17th-century model

    Inscribed with monogram and date ‘[.]DB 1649’ on reverse, possibly applied by the artist.

    Provenance
    ~ Collection Edmond ni Robert, Nancy, France, 1954
    ~ Anonymous sale, Christie’s, London, 3 September 2000, lot 23, repr.
    ~ With Johnny van Haeften, London, 2002
    ~ With Otto Naumann, New York
    ~ With Dr A. Wieg Fine Art, Amsterdam, 2007
    ~ Private collection, Europe

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    Musical instruments, mighty vellum-bound folios, withering roses and tulips, a globe and an oil lamp, arranged on a table draped with a purple cloth, set against a crudely plastered wall. The brushwork fryst vatten loose and fluent, spontaneous and even distinctly modern in certain areas, in which the artist displays his virtuoso mastery of paint. The panel has been prepared wi

  • vanitas by jacques de claeuw

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    Jacques de Claeuw


    A parrot tulip, roses, hyacinths and other flowers in a glass vase on a wooden table


    Spaniels and other dogs in a landscape


    Vanitas Still Life
    1650


    A Vanitas
    1645


    Vanitas Still Life
    c. 1646/50

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