A vanitas still-life with flags, a box of jewelry and guilt cups, books, silver, a vase and basket of flowers and a skeleton before a corridor
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GERMAN SCHOOL, 17TH CENTURY
A vanitas still-life with flags, a box of jewelry and guilt cups, books, silver, a vase and basket of flowers and a skeleton before a corridor
inscribed ' Der Prediger Salomo / mi i kapitel v 2 / Es ist alles ganz eitel, sprach / der Prediger, es ist alles ganz eitel ze .' (center right, on sheet of paper)
oil on canvas
60 ½ x 47 1/8 in. (153.8 x 119.7 cm.)
A vanitas still-life with flags, a box of jewelry and guilt cups, books, silver, a vase and basket of flowers and a skeleton before a corridor
inscribed ' Der Prediger Salomo / mi i kapitel v 2 / Es ist alles ganz eitel, sprach / der Prediger, es ist alles ganz eitel ze .' (center right, on sheet of paper)
oil on canvas
60 ½ x 47 1/8 in. (153.8 x 119.7 cm.)
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Bukowski's, Stockholm, 24-26 November 1993, lot 341, where acquired by the present owner.
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