Allegory of transience

Beest, Sybrand van (ca. 1610-1674)

Item type:

painting

Height:

42.0 cm  (16 9/16 in.)

Width:

70.5 cm  (27 3/4 in.)

Technique / Medium:

painting on wood

Description

Lady Vanitas is surrounded by numerous symbols stressing the vanity of human existence. Visible amid a display of weapons are the two essentials of military music: the side drum and the trumpet. On the right side of the painting are things associated with merry-making: a music book, and a lute.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Side drum [2729]
Trumpet [4446]
Lute [3394]

Musical works

illegible music notation

Image URLs

image link 1

Bibliographic references

Buijsen, Edwin and Louis Peter Grijp. The Hoogsteder exhibition of music and painting in the golden age (The Hague: Hoogsteder & Hoogsteder; Zwolle: Waanders, 1994) 138, cat. no. 3. RILM 1994-8665.

RIdIM record id

3565