Vanitas stilleven

Peschier, N. L. (active mid-17th century)

Item type:

painting

Date of creation:

1660

Height:

57.0 cm  (22 7/16 in.)

Width:

70.0 cm  (27 9/16 in.)

Signed and dated lower left: Peschier Fecit 1660

Technique / Medium:

oil on canvas

Additional titles

Description

On a table, several books, a skull, a sand clock and a prominent violin without bridge and strings, compose a vanitas still life. There is an opened book on the left in which some music is readable, although the text is not. The notation is in the key of C.

Iconclass

11R6
'Vanitas' still life

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Violin [3573] (with no bridge or strings)

RIdIM images

Image URLs

image link 1

Bibliographic references

Thiel, P.J.J. van. All the paintings of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam: a completely illustrated catalogue (Amsterdam: Rijksmuseum; Maarssen: G. Schwartz, 1976) 438. ISBN: 9061790107.

RIdIM record id

2908