Vanitas Still Life with a Violin

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'Vanitas' still-life paintings were de Claeuw's speciality. 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. The fragmentary date may have been 1652, to judge by dated paintings which are close in style and include a number of the same accessories.

Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Oxford

Title

Vanitas Still Life with a Violin

Date

1652

Medium

oil on panel

Measurements

H 32 x W 46 cm

Accession number

WA1940.2.20

Acquisition method

Bequeathed by Daisy Linda Ward, 1939

Work type

Painting

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