Dutch Master

Middle of the 17th Century | Ca. 1655

A Vanitas Still Life with a Skull, an Hourglass and a Glass Vase with Roses in a Niche

Oil on canvas
H. 50 cm. W. 43 cm.

PROVENANCE
With Rafael Valls Limited | London | With lable verso | Nr. 38
Private collection

REFERENCE LITERATURE
Willigen, A. van der & Meijer, F.G. (2003). A Dictionary of Dutch and Flemish Still Life Painters Working in Oil 1525-1724. Leiden, p. 27

CATALOGUE NOTE
This vanitas still life follows the work of Hendrick Andriessen, who painted several other vanitas still lives, one in the collection of the Museum voor Schone Kunsten in Ghent (inv./cat.nr. 1914), another in the collection of the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology in Oxford (inv./cat.nr. 5) and seven in private collections.