Vanitas (interior with two women)

Duck, Jacob (ca. 1600-1667)

Item type:

painting

Date of creation:

1655-1665

Height:

45.0 cm  (17 11/16 in.)

Width:

38.0 cm  (14 15/16 in.)

Signed low left: JADuck

Technique / Medium:

oil on panel

Description

An elegantly dressed young woman is seated at a table scattered with several items related to the 'vanitas' theme (jewellery, hour glass, candle stick, books) while an old woman is whispering something at her ear. In the foreground on the left some coins are lying on the ground while some musical instruments are resting against a chair on the right: a viola da gamba, a violin and a lute.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Viola da gamba [3604]
Violin [3573]
Lute [3394]

Image URLs

image link 1

Bibliographic references

Salomon, Nanette. Jacob Duck and the gentrification of Dutch genre painting (Doornspijk: DAVACO, 1998) 143, n. 9, fig. 91. ISBN: 9070288567.

RIdIM record id

2935