Vanitas still life

Collier, Edwaert (ca. 1640-1709) (attributed to)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
1662
Height:
94.0 cm  (37 in.)
Width:
112.1 cm  (44 1/8 in.)
Technique / Medium:
oil on canvas

    Item location

  • Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
    [Museum inv. no.: 71.19]

Description

Vanitas Still Life with array of objects on a cloth-covered table. Has been attributed to Collier by various sources, however RKD has questioned the attribution. No signature or date.

Iconclass

11R6
'Vanitas' still life

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Treble recorder [4096] (boxwood / ivory trim)
Violin [3573]

RIdIM images


Image URLs

image link 1
Metropolitan Museum of Art image

Bibliographic references

Leppert, Richard. Music and image: Domesticity, ideology, and socio-cultural formation in eighteenth-century England (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988) 144-5. ISBN 0521360293.

RIdIM record id

1610