Allegory of vanity

Bramer, Leonard (1596-1674)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
1640
Height:
81.0 cm  (31 7/8 in.)
Width:
62.0 cm  (24 7/16 in.)

    Item location

  • Hofmuseum
    [Museum inv. no.: 1245]ArtResource[www.artres.com] places this work at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna and provides an image but no catalogue number. Card prepared by Alix Moyer, 3/5/81.
    Catalog number listed on card is 1907

Description

A male allegorical figure, perhaps "Death," playing theorbo.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Theorbo [3473]
Lute [3394]
Violin [3573]
Cittern [3106]
Viol [3597]
Recorder [4039]
Bow [2207]

Musical works

illegible music notation

Image URLs

image link 1
Image

Bibliographic references

Wichmann, Heinrich. Leonaert Bramer: Sein Leben und Seine Kunst (Leipzig: Verlag von Karl W. Heiersmann, 1923) 45-46; pl. 15, cat. 236 (p. 143-44).

RIdIM record id

342