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Vanitas Still Life

1629

59.27

Not currently on view

oil paintpanels

Artwork Details

Artist
Creation Date
1629
Materials
oil on panel
Object Types
paintings, oil paintings
Dimensions

18-1/8 x 15 in. 24 x 24 in. (framed)

Mark Description

Inscribed, l.r.: A. 1629 Signed l.r.: J. Falk f. Inscribed, l.r.: Humana cuncta fumus, umbra, vanitas, et scenae imago. (All that is human is smoke, shadow, vanity and the picture of a stage.)

Accession Number
59.27
Credit Line

Gift of Alfred Brod

Copyright
Public Domain
Collection

European Painting and Sculpture Before 1800

Color Palette

Private Dutch Collection, possibly in The Hague, by 1933.{1} (Alfred Brod, London, England);{2} purchased by the John Herron Art Institute, Indianapolis, Indiana, now the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, in 1959. {1} The painting was included in the exhibition "Het Stilleven" held at the Kunsthandel J. Goudstikker, Amsterdam, 18 February - 19 March 1933, catalogue no. 92 (as Jeremias Falck, "Twee doodskoppen met roos," 1629) with the provenance "Particuliere Nederlandsche verzameling." When it was illustrated in an article by Marcel George Roethlisberger, "Abraham Bloemaert's Vanitas Representations," Delineavit et sculpsit (Leiden), volume 5, 1991, no. 9, the author lists the (former) owner as "The Hague, Private Collection." As concerns a possible Goudstikker connection, this painting is not included in the May 1940 Goudstikker Blackbook which has recently been digitized, see http://www.thejewishmuseum.org/site/pages/content/exhibitions/special/goudstikker-blackbook/blackbook.html {2} IMA Temporary Receipt No. 6723. The painting was probably included as no. 8 in the Alfred Brod Gallery's Winter Exhibition 1957, 6 December 1957-4 January 1958.



Exhibition Name

Venue

Dates

The Viewing Project: The Museum of Wonder

Indianapolis Museum of Art

October 14, 2011 - April 15, 2012


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