THE PROPERTY OF AN INSTITUTION
JAN VERMEULEN* (active 1638-1674)
Details
JAN VERMEULEN* (active 1638-1674)
A Vanitas Still Life: a skull with an ivy wreath, a crown, money bags, an hourglass, a book of sheet music, pearls and other objects on a stone plinth
Inscribed "MORS OMNIA VINCIT" (Death conquers all) and "VANITAS VANITATUM ET OMNIA VANITAS" (Ecclesiastes I:2: Vanity of vanities, all is vanity), and signed and dated 'J.V. Meulen' (top right) and '1654' (on the sheet music)--oil on panel
28 7/8 x 22¾in. (73.3 x 57.8cm.)
A Vanitas Still Life: a skull with an ivy wreath, a crown, money bags, an hourglass, a book of sheet music, pearls and other objects on a stone plinth
Inscribed "MORS OMNIA VINCIT" (Death conquers all) and "VANITAS VANITATUM ET OMNIA VANITAS" (Ecclesiastes I:2: Vanity of vanities, all is vanity), and signed and dated 'J.V. Meulen' (top right) and '1654' (on the sheet music)--oil on panel
28 7/8 x 22¾in. (73.3 x 57.8cm.)
Literature
J. Bernström and B. Rapp, Iconographica, 1958, pp. 87-90