Lot Essay
The composition follows the engraving after Goltzius (Bartsch 11/98)
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A Vanitas: a putto stepping on a skull, blowing bubbles, a landscape beyond, flowers in a vase and a smoking urn on a ledge in the foreground
Details
After Hendrick Goltzius
A Vanitas: a putto stepping on a skull, blowing bubbles, a landscape beyond, flowers in a vase and a smoking urn on a ledge in the foreground
inscribed and dated QVIS EVADET 1603
oil on panel
52.6 x 35.3 cm
A Vanitas: a putto stepping on a skull, blowing bubbles, a landscape beyond, flowers in a vase and a smoking urn on a ledge in the foreground
inscribed and dated QVIS EVADET 1603
oil on panel
52.6 x 35.3 cm
Provenance
Peltzer, Cologne; Sale, Amsterdam, 26 May 1914, lot 31
Literature
Th. von Frimmel, Geschichte der Wiener Gemälde Sammlungen, 1899, III, fig. XXVIII
O. Hirschmann, Hendrick Goltzius als Maler 1600-1617, IX, 1916, p. 95
W.L. Strauss, The illustrated Bartsch, III-Commentary, 1982, p. 346
O. Hirschmann, Hendrick Goltzius als Maler 1600-1617, IX, 1916, p. 95
W.L. Strauss, The illustrated Bartsch, III-Commentary, 1982, p. 346