Vanitas

Collier, Edwaert (ca. 1640-1709)

Item type:

painting

Date of creation:

1662

Height:

166.1 cm  (65 3/8 in.)

Width:

137.2 cm  (54 in.)

Technique / Medium:

oil on canvas

Description

Vanitas still life depicting a globe, a casket of jewels and medallions, books, a hurdy-gurdy, a bagpipe (cornemuse), a lute, a violin, an upturned silver tazza and roemer, a nautilus shell, a recorder, a shawm, a bombarde, a print with a self-portrait of the artist and a musical score on a draped table, with a curtain above.

People as subjects

Collier, Edwaert (ca. 1640-1709)

Iconclass

11R6
'Vanitas' still life
48C513
portrait, self-portrait of painter
48C73
musical instruments; group of musical instruments
48C741
printed edition of musical score

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Violin [3573]
Recorder [4039]
Shawm [4258]
Hurdy-gurdy [3305]
Lute [3394]
Bagpipe [3746]
Bombarde [4181]

Musical works

Gastoldi, Giovanni Giacomo -- Questa dolce sirenalegible music notation
open page in a book of music by Jacob van Eyck entitled Der Fluyten Lust-Hof (The Flute of the Garden of Pleasure), published in 1646

RIdIM images

Image URLs

image link 2

Bibliographic references

Markovic, Maja. "Collier decoded: 19 things you can read from this painting" (November 17, 2015) https://www.christies.com/features/Collier-decoded-19-things-you-can-read-from-this-painting-6828-1.aspx

Gétreau, Florence. Voir la musique (Paris: Citadelles & Mazenod, 2017) 164, ill. 140. RILM 2017-31039.

RIdIM record id

4503