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A Vanitas: A scholar at work by a table by a column, visited by Truth while Time and Death appear in the background
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Hendrik Heerschop (1620-after 1672)
A Vanitas: A scholar at work by a table by a column, visited by Truth while Time and Death appear in the background
signed and dated HF. HEERSCHOP/A 1651 (HF linked) lower right
oil on canvas, laid down on board, unframed
64.1 x 55.1 cm
A Vanitas: A scholar at work by a table by a column, visited by Truth while Time and Death appear in the background
signed and dated HF. HEERSCHOP/A 1651 (HF linked) lower right
oil on canvas, laid down on board, unframed
64.1 x 55.1 cm
Provenance
with B.Rapp, Stockholm, 1948.
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Sale room notice
Please note that the woman standing in the centre holding the sceptre with an eye is to be identified as a personification of Chastity (see C. Ripa, Iconologia of Uytbeeldighe des Verstands, 1971, p.632)